Quitter vs Coward - What's the difference?
quitter | coward |
Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Job II:
(farriery) A fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot resulting from bruises, pricks, or neglected corns.
(obsolete) Scoria of tin.
One who quits.
(obsolete) A deliverer.
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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
As nouns the difference between quitter and coward
is that quitter is matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus while coward is a person who lacks courage.As a verb quitter
is to suppurate; ooze with pus.As an adjective coward is
cowardly.As a proper noun Coward is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) quiture, (quyture) et al., specialised use of .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(-)- Therfor Sathan [...] smoot Joob with a ful wickid botche fro the sole of the foot til to his top; which Joob schauyde the quytere with a schelle, and sat in the dunghil.
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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.
