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: characterized by complete cowardice
Did you know?
When you get down to synonyms, a poltroon is just a chicken. Barnyard chickens are fowl that have long been noted for timidity, and the name chicken has been applied to human cowards since the 17th century. Poltroon has been used for wimps and cravens for even longer, since the early 16th century at least. And if you remember that chickens are dubbed poultry, you may guess that the birds and the cowards are linked by etymology as well as synonymy. English picked up poltroon from Middle French, which in turn got it from Old Italian poltrone, meaning "coward." The Italian term has been traced to the Latin pullus, a root that is also an ancestor of pullet ("a young hen") and poultry.
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Noun those poltroons in the state legislature who have caved in to bigotry on this important issue of basic civil rights Adjective a military commander who was so poltroon that he surrendered without having fired so much as a single shot
Recent Examples on the Web
Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
Noun
And there’s the awkward fact of Giuliani’s having failed, in spite of his most abject scheming, to manage to overturn the presidential election that Donald Trump lost to a wobbly poltroon on the edge of 80. Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021 Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle French poultron, from Old Italian poltrone, probably akin to poltro colt, ultimately from Latin pullus young of an animal — more at foal
First Known Use
Noun
circa 1529, in the meaning defined above
Adjective
1645, in the meaning defined above
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