eunuco — meaning in English
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English meaning
- chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
- eunuch noun A man who has been castrated, historically often so he could serve as a guard or official in a royal household.
- pushover noun Someone who is easily persuaded, taken advantage of, or pushed around.
- weenie noun (informal) A weak, feeble person.
- wuss noun An informal, slightly mocking word for someone seen as weak, timid, or easily scared.
Senses
eunuco is used for these senses in English:
- chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
- namby-pamby One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak.
- 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.
- weenie (slang, sometimes, derogatory) Someone weak and unimportant, a wimp.
- wuss (slang, mildly, derogatory) A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person.
- 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.
eunuch — full definition
- noun A man who has been castrated, historically often so he could serve as a guard or official in a royal household.
- noun Figuratively, someone or something seen as powerless or ineffective.
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