All fraidy-cat synonyms

noun fraidy-cat

• coward — If you call someone a coward, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid dangerous or difficult situations.
• wimp — any of a group of weakly interacting elementary particles predicted by various unified field theories, as the W particle and Z-zero particle, that are characterized by relatively large masses.
• crybaby — If someone calls a child a crybaby, they mean that the child cries a lot for no good reason.
• pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
• poltroon — a wretched coward; craven.
• yellow — a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
• pessimist — a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.
• chicken — Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.
• alarmist — Someone or something that is alarmist causes unnecessary fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen.
• cur — A cur is an unfriendly dog, especially a mongrel.
• dastard — a contemptible sneaking coward
• shirker — a person who evades work, duty, responsibility, etc.
• sneak — to go in a stealthy or furtive manner; slink; skulk.
• recreant — cowardly or craven.
• rabbit — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
• baby — A baby is a very young child, especially one that cannot yet walk or talk.
• funk — Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1967, U.S. biochemist, born in Poland: discovered thiamine, the first vitamin isolated.
• malingerer — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
• deserter — A deserter is someone who leaves their job in the armed forces without permission.
• quitter — a person who quits or gives up easily, especially in the face of some difficulty, danger, etc.
• craven — Someone who is craven is very cowardly.
• caitiff — a cowardly or base person
• weakling — a person who is physically or morally weak.
• invertebrate — Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
• jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
• skulker — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
• sissy — Disparaging and Offensive. an effeminate boy or man.
• namby-pamby — without firm methods or policy; weak or indecisive: namby-pamby handling of juvenile offenders.
• pantywaist — Informal. a weak, effeminate man; sissy.
• pansy — a violet, Viola tricolor hortensis, cultivated in many varieties, having richly and variously colored flowers.
• wuss — a weakling; wimp.
• milksop — a weak or ineffectual person.
• coward — If you call someone a coward, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid dangerous or difficult situations.
• loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
• schlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
• puppy — a young dog, especially one less than a year old.
• daisy — A daisy is a small wild flower with a yellow centre and white petals.
• featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
• gutless — lacking courage, fortitude, or determination.
• shirk — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
• faintheart — person who lacks courage; coward.
• scaredy cat — fraidy-cat.
• yellow belly — Slang. a person who is without courage, fortitude, or nerve; coward.
• wussy — a weakling; wimp.
• cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
• scaredy-cat — fraidy-cat.