| becoward | to accuse of COWARDICE. |
| caitiff | base, cowardly or despicable. [L. captivus]. |
| chicken | cowardly; (verb) not to do something out of cowardice. |
| chickenshit | petty, cowardly; (noun) petty detail. |
| cissified | made CISSY. N.B. no verb CISSIFY. |
| cissy | a weak, girlish male; (adj.) effeminate: CISSIER, CISSIEST. |
| coward | one who lacks courage: COWARDLY; (verb) to weaken the courage of, make afraid. |
| cowardice | lack of courage. |
| cowardliness | the state of being COWARDLY. |
| cowardship | (Shakesp.) the state of being a COWARD. |
| cowardly | like a COWARD, lacking courage. |
| cowardry | cowardice. |
| cower | to shrink back as in fear. |
| cowheard | (arch.) a coward. |
| cowish | cowardly. |
| craven | a coward; cowardly: CRAVENLY; (verb) to make a coward: CRAVENS, CRAVENED, CRAVENING. |
| creampuff | puff pastry filled with cream; (sl.) an effeminate man. |
| cringe | to shrink back as in fear, to cower. |
| cringeling cringer | a person who cringes. |
| crybaby | one given to tears. |
| dastard | a coward; esp. one who sneakily commits malicious acts. |
| dastardliness dastardness | the state of being DASTARDLY. |
| dastardly | like a DASTARD, despicable. |
| dastardy | base timidity; cowardliness. |
| dingo | to act in a cowardly manner: DINGOES, DINGOED+, DINGOING+. |
| doormat | a timid unassertive person. |
| fainthearted | timid > FAINTHEARTEDLY. |
| feeb | a weak ineffectual person, a wimp. |
| fugie | a cock that will not fight, a runaway. |
| funk | a state of fear; (verb) not to do something out of fear. |
| funker | one who funks. |
| gutless | lacking courage > GUTLESSLY. |
| hilding hylding | a mean person, a coward, a dastard. |
| meacock | a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked. |
| milksop | a spiritless man or youth. |
| milksopism | the state of being a MILKSOP. |
| milksoppy | like a MILKSOP. |
| milktoast+ milquetoast | a very timid, unassertive person. [From Caspar Milquetoast, a comic strip character created in 1924 by the American cartoonist Harold T. Webster]. |
| mollycoddle | an effeminate man; (verb) to cosset someone. |
| a colourless, insignificant person, a perpetual victim. | |
| nebbishy | wimpy. |
| niddering nidderling nidering niderling niding nithing | an infamous person; an abject coward. |
| nidget | a fool; an idiot, a coward. |
| niding | see NIDDERING. |
| nithing | see NIDDERING. |
| pantywaist | an effeminate or cowardly man. |
| piker | a timid gambler; a pilferer. |
| poltroon | a despicable coward. |
| poltroonery | mean pusillanimity: cowardice. |
| poultroone | a POLTROON. |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution; marked by contemptible timidity > PUSILLANIMOUSLY. |
| pusillanimity | cowardice. |
| quitter | one who quits, gives up. |
| recreant | cowardly, apostate > RECREANTLY; (noun) a coward; an apostate. |
| scaramouch scaramouche | a personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon. |
| sissified | like a SISSY. N.B. no verb SISSIFY*. |
| sissiness+ sissyness | the state of being SISSY. |
| sissy | a weak, girlish male; (adj.) effeminate > SISSIER, SISSIEST. |
| sissyish | resembling a SISSY. N.B. no CISSYISH*. |
| softy | a weak or excessively sentimental person. |
| timid | easily frightened > TIMIDLY. |
| timorous | timid: TIMOROUSLY. |
| timorsome | (dial.) easily frightened. |
| viliaco viliago villagio villiaco villiago | a coward > VILIACOES or VILIACOS, VILIAGOES or VILIAGOS, VILLAGIOES or VILLAGIOS, VILLIACOES or VILLIACOS, VILLIAGOES or VILLIAGOS. |
| wimp | an ineffectual or pusillanimous person; (verb) to behave like a wimp. |
| wimpiness | the quality of being a WIMPY. |
| wimpish | like a WIMP > WIMPISHLY. |
| wimpishness | the state of being WIMPISH. |
| wimpy | characteristic of a wimp; feeble, ineffectual: WIMPIER, WIMPIEST. |
| woose | a wimp. |
| wuss | a wimp. |
| wussy | wimpish > WUSSIER, WUSSIEST; (noun) a wimp. |
| yellow | (coll.) cowardly. |
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