As a proper noun coward
is .
As a noun wheyface is
one who is pale, as from fear; a coward.
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
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wheyface English
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