Synonyms for scaredy-cat
- noun
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Noun
scaredy pants, sissy, weak sister US, coward, milquetoast informal, invertebrate informal, fraidy cat, chicken slang, pussy vulgar slang, sook slang
Definitions
- n. 1
A coward; a person who is easily frightened or high-strung and easily scared.
Related words
- Other spellings
- scaredy cat
Forms
- Plural
- scaredy-cats → sissies, cowards, milquetoasts, invertebrates…
Example sentences
- coward I'm such a coward that I rarely visit the dentist.
- sissy You're a bit of a sissy, aren't you?
By length
- 4 letters
- sook
- 5 letters
- pussy2, sissy2
- 6 letters
- coward2
- 7 letters
- chicken2
- 11 letters
- milquetoast
- 12 letters
- invertebrate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pussy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- trouillard
- Italiano
- fifone