Crossword clues for coward
coward
- Yellow fish gobbled up, uncooked
- Green brought back for stuffing fish and chicken
- Yellow fellow
- Unlikely hero
- Yellow-bellied one
- Faint-hearted person
- Scared person
- One who's habitually afraid
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen songwriter
- He doesn't deserve the fair
- Hardly hero material
- Fearful one
- Composer of "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"
- Blithe Spirit playwright
- "Blithe Spirit" author
- Yellowbelly
- Chicken
- A person who shows fear or timidity
- English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)
- Noël _____
- "Present Indicative" is his autobiography
- "Cavalcade" playwright
- Caitiff
- "Private Lives" playwright
- Animal on a road is easily frightened
- Craven person
- Stiff paper boxes that hurt chicken
- Fish stuffed with raw minced chicken
- Firm sketch put up for Jessie and company care
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coward \Cow"ard\, n. A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
A fool is nauseous, but a coward worse.
--Dryden.
Syn: Craven; poltroon; dastard.
Coward \Cow"ard\ (kou"?rd), a. [OF. couard, coard, coart, n. and adj., F. couard, fr. OF. coe, coue, tail, F. queue (fr. L. coda, a form of cauda tail) + -ard; orig., short-tailed, as an epithet of the hare, or perh., turning tail, like a scared dog. Cf. Cue, Queue, Caudal.]
(Her.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
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Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch.
--Shak. -
Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
--Shak.Invading fears repel my coward joy.
--Proir.
Coward \Cow"ard\, v. t. To make timorous; to frighten. [Obs.]
That which cowardeth a man's heart.
--Foxe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., from Old French coart "coward" (no longer the usual word in French, which has now in this sense poltron, from Italian, and lâche), from coe "tail," from Latin coda, popular dialect variant of cauda "tail," which is of uncertain origin + -ard, an agent noun suffix denoting one that carries on some action or possesses some quality, with derogatory connotation (see -ard).\n
\nThe word probably reflects an animal metaphoric sense still found in expressions like turning tail and tail between legs. Coart was the name of the hare in Old French versions of "Reynard the Fox." Italian codardo, Spanish cobarde are from French.\n\nThe identification of coward & bully has gone so far in the popular consciousness that persons & acts in which no trace of fear is to be found are often called coward(ly) merely because advantage has been taken of superior strength or position ....
[Fowler]
\nAs a surname (attested from 1255) it represents Old English cuhyrde "cow-herd." Farmer has coward's castle "a pulpit," "Because a clergyman may deliver himself therefrom without fear of contradiction or argument."Wiktionary
a. 1 cowardly. 2 (context heraldry of a lion English) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs. n. A person who lacks courage.
WordNet
n. a person who shows fear or timidity
English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973) [syn: Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward]
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Wikipedia
A coward is someone who possesses the trait of cowardice.
Coward may also refer to:
Coward is the second studio album by American post-hardcore band Made Out of Babies. It was the second and last album by the band to be released through Neurot records on September 5, 2006. The album was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago with mixing by John Golden.
Coward is a solo album by American guitarist Nels Cline which was released in October 2009 on the Cryptogramophone label.
Coward is the sixth studio album from Haste the Day. Solid State Records released the album on May 18, 2015. The album was released following the band's successful funding campaign via the crowdfunding website IndieGoGo, to which fans contributed more than twice the band's original goal. Coward is unique in that it features contributions from every member throughout the band's career, and is the first studio album to feature original vocalist Jimmy Ryan since the band's 2005 release When Everything Falls.
Coward is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles Coward, known as the "Count of Auschwitz", English soldier captured during World War II who rescued Jews from Auschwitz
- Chris Coward, English football player
- Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward, actor who starred in the seminal 1972 thriller Deliverance
- John Coward, British gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- John Coward, the first officer of British Airways Flight 38 which crashed at Heathrow on 17 January 2008
- Noël Coward (1899–1973), English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music
- Dame Pamela Coward, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003 for having transformed her school, Middleton Technology School, in Middleton, near Rochdale
- Thomas Coward, English ornithologist and amateur astronomer and author
- William Coward, English physician, controversial writer, and poet
Gaz Coward, English film director, produce and actor
Usage examples of "coward".
For a while there was some robust debating, the Castellans being pilloried as dictatorial and even war-mongering, while the Ploughers were labelled as naive appeasers and cowards and quite indifferent to the fate of the people who worked in the forestry trade.
He listened attentively to the count, who told us we were going to our destruction, and like the coward that he was, he began to plan how to escape from the dangerous journey.
I gave him a blow with my cane by way of answer, and the coward, instead of drawing his sword, began to cry out that I wished to draw him into a fight.
In the meanwhile I bore as well as I could the poor figure he must be cutting before the officers at table, who, after hearing the insolence of this young blockhead, might take me for a coward.
Hearing these words, he came up to me, sneering, called me a coward, and gave me a smack on the face which almost stunned me.
I felt that my position was a difficult one, and that unless I was careful I might ruin all, for I had to do with a coward quite capable of saying that he was not going to risk his life, and by myself I could not hope to succeed.
I would be a fool, and a coward, to abandon Darre and leave a Wendish foreigner, however loyal, in charge.
These arguments did not satisfy him, and in his rage he dared to tell me that I was a scurvy coward not to know that it was my duty to defend a friend to the death.
Daniel was a coward before one of the simplest, most inevitable happenings of earthly life.
In an age which venerated the Miles Gloriosus and thought of the Exploring Officer and his even more shadowy kindred as jackals and cowards, the news that the King himself employed such creatures might be enough to trigger a second English Civil War.
It takes a coward like me, scared from an encounter with Dieter Gluck, to feel fright.
It seemed to me that if I had failed to come, I should have given him the right to call me a coward.
I ordered the men to go back to the island, but they answered that I had not to deal with a couple of cowards, and that I had no occasion to be afraid.
I believe I would have helped you to pierce him to the heart if the coward had not run away.
Medini, who had no arms, and was only in his dressing-gown, proceeded to distribute kicks, cuffs, and blows amongst the four cowards, who had their swords at their sides, whilst I held the door to prevent the Irishman going out and calling for assistance.