Synonyms for poltroonish
- mean-spirited
- chicken
- yellow
- cowardly
- dastardly
- fearful
- gutless
- lily-livered
- pusillanimous
- scared
- timorous
- weak-kneed
- wimpish
- wimpy
- wussy
- yellow-bellied
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Antonyms for poltroonish
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WORD ORIGIN
"A coward; a nidgit; a scoundrel" [Johnson, who spells it poltron], 1520s, from Middle French poultron "rascal, coward" (16c., Modern French poltron), from Italian poltrone "lazy fellow, coward," apparently from *poltro "couch, bed" (cf. Milanese polter, Venetian poltrona "couch"), perhaps from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German polstar "pillow;" see bolster (n.)). Cf. also -oon.
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