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- noun Plural form of
scaredy-cat .
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Examples
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At the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday, signs mocked the nation of scaredy-cats we've become.
Forget the terrorists - it's Metro escalators that should strike fear in your heart Post 2010
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Macs, I claimed, were "glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy-cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work."
I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling | Charlie Brooker 2011
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At the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday, signs mocked the nation of scaredy-cats we've become.
Forget the terrorists - it's Metro escalators that should strike fear in your heart Post 2010
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Fear is the only thing powering the right-wing nuts in our country, so I guess the only way for America to move forward as a society is to pass out the Valium to all the scaredy-cats.
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So this is what pro-Israel advocacy has come to: turning kids into scaredy-cats.
MJ Rosenberg: Teaching Zionist Kids to Lose Their Minds 2010
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Too bad the profiteering scaredy-cats won't pay attention.
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Everyone knows that the best way to get a teenager to do something is to call them scaredy-cats.
Decisions, decisions or a story of thirteen year old’s dreams come true « Oh. Claire 2010
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Compared to The Blair Witch Project (down to the amateurish acting), the film still terrified a number of scaredy-cats attending the free shriek show on successive nights at Elks Park.
Michael Bialas: The (Looonnng and Winding) Road Out of Telluride 2009
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The Dems really need to start calling these wips for what they are -- fear-filled scaredy-cats.
PA-SEN: Santorum: Terrorists More Dangerous Than Hitler, Soviet Union, Mao 2009
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But we have to get more people cooking at home and really interested in food and not scaredy-cats about everything.
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