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Coward vs Pullet - What's the difference?

coward | pullet |

As nouns the difference between coward and pullet

is that coward is a person who lacks courage while pullet is a young hen, especially one less than a year old.

As a adjective coward

is cowardly.

coward

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who lacks courage.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • 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 also

    Derived terms

    * cowardly * cowardice

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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
    • He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
  • * Prior
    • Invading fears repel my coward joy.
  • (heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
    • English words suffixed with -ard

    pullet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
    • They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
  • * 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 588:
    • The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet , the squire himself [...] attending the door.
  • * 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 187:
    • he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
  • *1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 195:
  • *:The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
  • (slang) A spineless person; a coward.