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Definition: Poltroon |
PoltroonAdjective1. Characterized by complete cowardliness. Noun1. An abject coward. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "poltroon" was first used: 1529. (references) |
Synonyms: PoltroonSynonyms: craven (n), recreant (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cowardice | Coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; dunghill cock; coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say " bo" to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Poltroon |
| English words defined with "poltroon": Cullion ♦ Poltroonish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "poltroon": Matamore ♦ Poltroon'. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "poltroon": Mammer. (references) |
| "Poltroon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Poltroon" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "poltroon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | frikacak (chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastard, dastardly, faint-heart, faint-hearted, funk, milk-livered, pusillanimous, recreant, scary, sneak, sneaking, white livered, yellow, yellowbellied, yellow-livered), burracak (coward, milk-livered, rat, recreant, slack). (various references) | |
Arabic | جبان لأبعد الحدود, الرعديد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | жалък страхливец. (various references) | |
Czech | zbabìlec (chicken, coward, faint-heart, turn back, turnback). (various references) | |
French | poltron. (various references) | |
German | Feigling (coward, faintheart, wimp). (various references) | |
Greek | άνανδροσ (coward, cowardly, Craven, dastard, recreant, unmanly). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מו' לב (chicken hearted, coward, cur, lily livered, pigeonhearted, recreant, weakkneed). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengecut (abject, coward, dastard, faint, faint-hearted, sneak, unmanly, white-livered). (various references) | |
Italian | vigliacco (caitiff, coward, cowardly, dastard, fig, gutless, sneak). (various references) | |
Manx | metteydagh (recreant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oltroonpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | poltrão (chicken-hearted, coward, rabbity, scaramouch, trembler). (various references) | |
Romanian | poltron (poltroonish), laş (base-spirited, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastard, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, hen-hearted, invertebrate, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, pigeon-hearted, recreant, sneak, sneaky, unmanly, white livered, yellow), fricos (apprehensive, caitiff, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastard, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, funky, hare-hearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, Patsi, pigeon-hearted, piker, poor spirited, pusillanimous, shy, spiritless, timid, timorous, white livered, yellow). (various references) | |
Russian | трус (caitiff, capon, chicken, chicken-liver, coward, dastard, faintheart, faint-heart, funk, milksop, pikelet, piker, rat, recreant, yellow dog). (various references) | |
Scottish | cladhaire (a poltroon). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poltron (chairwarmer). (various references) | |
Spanish | cobarde (chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, craven, dastardly, faint-hearted, lily livered, pigeonhearted, piker, quitter, recreant, timid, weak-kneed, weakling, yellow). (various references) | |
Swedish | pultron (coward, dastard, recreant). (various references) | |
Turkish | tabansız (pusillanimous), namert (cowardly), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), ödlek (chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cowardly, fainthearted, hen-hearted, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, white livered, yellow dog). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страшенний боягуз. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ nhát như cáy, kẻ nhát gan. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Italian | 900-Modern | poltrone. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | poltron. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "poltroon": poltrooneries, poltroonery, poltroons. (additional references) | |
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"Poltroon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gobtron, Koolatron, petrocon, plotprog, Polaron, Polgreen, Pollerton, Poltown, poltrone, Pontorson, Portoroz, potoroo, Pulbrook, pultroon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-n-o-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: pronto, proton. | |
-3 letters: orlop, porno, troop. | |
-4 letters: loon, loop, loot, lorn, nolo, onto, plot, polo, pool, poon, poor, porn, port, root, rotl, roto, tool, toon, torn, toro, trop. | |
-5 letters: loo, lop, lot, noo, nor, not, oot, opt, ort, pol, pot, pro, rot, ton, too, top, tor. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-n-o-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: poltroons. | |
+2 letters: colorpoint. | |
+3 letters: colorpoints, poltroonery, promotional, protocoling. | |
+4 letters: anthropology, prolongation, proportional, protocolling. | |
+5 letters: isoproterenol, photoelectron, poltrooneries, prolongations, proportionals, propositional, tropocollagen. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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