coward

coward englannista suomeksi

1. pelkuri

0. Substantiivi

1. pelkuri

1. Verbi

coward englanniksi

1. Coward

1. A person who lacks courage.

2. (quote-book)

3. 1856: (w), (w), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.

4. Cowardly.

5. (RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes)

6. (circa), (w), ''(w)'', Act II, Scene 4,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=kinglear&Act=2&Scene=4&Scope=scene

He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1709|author=Matthew Prior|chapter=Celia to Damon|title=Poems on Several Occasions|location=London|publisher=Jacob Tonson|edition=2nd|page=89|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100613744

8. Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.

9. To intimidate.

10. {{quote-text|en|year=1820|author=John Chalkhill|title=Thealma and Clearchus

11. (l), knave

12. idiot, simpleton

13. cowardly

14. stupid

15. (alt form)