poltroon

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Then he retired to his State Room to weep over the Situation, and the British Subject said: "The American is a Poltroon, for he will not defend his own Hearth and Fireside."

From Knocking the Neighbors by Ade, George

If a single exception can destroy a general character, Hector was a Coward, and Anthony a Poltroon.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol

Poltroon were he who had gone to bed before twelve on Noche-buena.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis

But the Poltroon with the white wig was not out of his Pother yet.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

Poltroon, pol-trōōn′, n. an idle, lazy fellow: a coward: a dastard: one without spirit.—adj. base, vile, contemptible.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various