craven
Meanings
Plural: cravens
Noun
- an abject coward
- A coward.
Adjective Satellite
- lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; ; ; - Spenser
- "the craven fellow turned and ran"
- "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"
Adj
- Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
Verb
- To make craven.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter, or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”).
Synonyms
boneless, bottler, caitiff, candy-arse, candy-ass, chicken, chicken liver, chicken-hearted, chickenshit, cocktail, coistril, coward, cowardly, cowardy custard, craven, dastardly, dog, fainthearted, fearful, fraidy cat, funker, gutless, gutless wonder, heartless, hen-hearted, invertebrate, jessie, kiasi, lily-livered, lizard, milky, milquetoast, mousy, nancy, niddering, nidering, nidget, niding, nithing, piece of crap, piece of shit, pisspants, poltroon, poor-spirited, pullet, punk, pusillanimous, pussy, pussyhole, quakebreech, quakebuttock, quiche-eater, recreant, scaredy cat, scaredy pants, shithouse, sissy, slag, sluggard, snool, sook, spineless, timid, timorous, unhearty, weak sister, weak-kneed, wheyface, wimpish, yellow, yellow back, yellow belly, yellow-bellied
Scrabble Score: 11
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