Coward vs Poltroon - What's the difference?
coward | poltroon |
A person who lacks courage.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Cowardly.
*, II.17:
*:It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
English words suffixed with -ard
An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.
* 1842 , , The Traduced: An Historical Romance? , page 266-267
Cowardly.
* 1926 , , Seven Pillars of Wisdom
As nouns the difference between coward and poltroon
is that coward is a person who lacks courage while poltroon is an ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.As adjectives the difference between coward and poltroon
is that coward is cowardly while poltroon is cowardly.As a proper noun Coward
is {{surname}.coward
English
Noun
(en noun)- He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward , he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
Synonyms
* chicken * See alsoDerived terms
* cowardly * cowardiceAdjective
(en adjective)- He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
- Invading fears repel my coward joy.
poltroon
English
Noun
(en noun)- "To gain life by means of a breach of faith and honour, were indeed to render myself the poltroon , and the villain my accusers believe me."
Synonyms
* (ignoble coward) craven, dastardAdjective
(en adjective)- Accordingly, to excuse our deliberate inactivity in the north, we had to make a show of impotence, which gave them to understand that the Arabs were too poltroon to cut the line near Maan and keep it cut.
