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  • noun archaic a coward
  • adjective cowardly

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  • coward; wretch

    December 12, 2008

  • The wise practice careful considering,

    The timid delay in mere dithering;

    But who will not decide

    We rightly deride

    As weak and a pathetic niddering.

    April 8, 2015