poltroon \pol-TROON\, noun:
1. A wretched coward; craven.
adjective:1. Marked by utter cowardice.
~Very cool word! I love when I happen across words that I've never heard before. Now, I feel compelled to write about a poltroon character.~
Poltroon originally came from the Latin pullus meaning “young animal.” It came to mean an idler or coward in Old French.
I harken back to my Zorro days where I think I first heard that word.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I can see it being used on a show like that...Zorro was forever fighting off poltroon characters! :)
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