cortigiano — meaning in English
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English meaning
- chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
- courtier noun A person who attends a royal court, often trying to gain favor with the monarch.
- milksop noun A piece of bread sopped in milk.
- pansy noun A small cultivated garden flower with broad, often multicoloured petals.
- pushover noun Someone who is easily persuaded, taken advantage of, or pushed around.
Senses
cortigiano is used for these senses in English:
- chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
- courtier A person in attendance at a royal court.
- milksop (by extension, pejorative) An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
- pansy (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
- pushover Someone who is easy to push around and to take advantage of; someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied without defending or standing up for themselves.
- yellowbelly (informal) A coward.
chicken — full definition
- noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
- noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
- noun (informal) A cowardly person.
- adj (informal) Cowardly; afraid to do something.
- verb (informal, usually with "out") To back out of something through fear.