Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal One who is excessively fearful.
Wiktionary
- n. A coward; a person who is easily frightened or high-strung and easily scared.
Examples
“I am still not sure how this particular event occurred as I am probably the biggest scaredy-cat ever, but my teammates convinced me that Saw VI was a Halloween MUST.”
“I warned John that I was an scaredy-cat city-boy on water.”
The Huffington Post: Binky Philips: I Visit Graceland and Get Kurt Cobain's Autograph
“What viewer spectrum, other than the scaredy-cat bigots who follow the Florida Family Association's hateful blog?”
The Huffington Post: Kari Ansari: A New Lowe For Anti-Muslim Bigotry
“Secondly, the closer I reach 40, the more “scaredy-cat” I become.”
“It is scaredy-cat and sheepish behavior, succumbing to Republicrat propaganda and terror tactics and other dominant-submissive phenomena, that enables those scoundrels to maintain their corporate masters 'strangle-hold -- for the time being.”
“Ok you scaredy-cat replied Ava, actually feeling frightened herself but trying not to show it.”
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“This is not a book for wimps, and if you are a scaredy-cat, it will teach you how to grow claws.”
“I am a scaredy-cat cook and haven't gotten up the nerve for that level of cooking yet!”
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Animalia Wordia
Words or short phrases with animal names in them. Since I already have a dedicated list for 'monkey' words I shall leave them out of this one for the moment.
paper tiger, pigeon-hearted, lion-hearted, sacred cow, chicken heart, fraidy cat, scaredy-cat, snake oil, can of worms, snake pit, rat's nest, stool pigeon and 114 more...
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Coward!
caitiff, craven, cur, dastard, funk, malingerer, poltroon, recreant, Scaramouch, invertebrate, jellyfish, fraidy cat and 53 more...
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