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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 Someone weak and unimportant, a wimp.
  • 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

  1. noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
  2. noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
  3. noun (informal) A cowardly person.
  4. adj (informal) Cowardly; afraid to do something.
  5. verb (informal, usually with "out") To back out of something through fear.

eunuch — full definition

  1. noun A man who has been castrated, historically often so he could serve as a guard or official in a royal household.
  2. noun Figuratively, someone or something seen as powerless or ineffective.

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