Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

cowardliness &c adj.; timidity, effeminacy. poltroonery, baseness; dastardness†, dastardy†; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear &c 860; white feather, faint heart; cold feet [U.S.], yellow streak [Slang]. coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; shy cock, dunghill cock; coistril†, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget†, one that cannot say 'boo' to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak. alarmist, terrorist†, pessimist; runagate &c (fugitive) 623. V. quail &c (fear) 860; be cowardly &c adj., be a coward &c n.; funk; cower, skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away &c (avoid) 623; show, the white feather. Adj. coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor- spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate. weak-minded; infirm of purpose &c 605; weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted†, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted; white- livered†, lily-livered, milk-livered†; milksop, smock-faced; unable to say 'boo' to a goose. dastard, dastardly; base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant; unwarlike, unsoldier-like. in face a lion but in heart a deer. unmanned; frightened &c 860. Int. sauve qui peut! [Fr.], every man for himself! [Fr.Tr.]; devil take the hindmost!, Phr. ante tubam trepidat [Lat.], one's courage oozing out; degeneres animos timor arguit [Lat.] [Vergil].