Noun

1. An ignoble or arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch.

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