Yeller vs Coward - What's the difference?
yeller | coward |
*, chapter=10
, title= 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 a noun yeller
is someone who yells.As an adjective yeller
is .As a proper noun coward is
.yeller
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
Eye dialect.Alternative forms
* yallerAdjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
Anagrams
* English agent nounscoward
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.