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cowardess

cowardess noun: a female coward.

Noun

cowardess (plural cowardesses)

  1. (rare) A female coward.
    • […] he began to yell and insult me, calling me a cowardess, a bugger, and a broken-bottomed whore.2016, John M. Hunt, The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum

Forms of cowardess

pluralcowardesses

Origin of cowardess

From coward + -ess.

Questions about cowardess

What does cowardess mean?
Cowardess means a female coward.
What part of speech is cowardess?
Cowardess is a noun.
What is the plural of cowardess?
The plural of cowardess is cowardesses.

Words near cowardess in the dictionary

  1. coward's ratio
  2. cowarde
  3. cowarded
  4. cowardes
  5. Cowardesque
  6. cowardess
  7. cowardesses
  8. Cowardian
  9. Cowardiana
  10. cowardice
  11. cowardices

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