
Poltroon
WordNet
adjective
(1) Characterized by complete cowardliness
noun
(2) An abject coward
WiktionaryText
Noun
Quotations
- 1926 Accordingly, to excuse our deliberate inactivity in the north, we had to make a show of impotence, which gave them to understand that the Arabs were too poltroon to cut the line near Maan and keep it cut. - T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom