Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is excessively fearful.
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- noun A
coward ; a person who is easilyfrightened orhigh-strung and easilyscared .
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Examples
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I am a scaredy-cat cook and haven't gotten up the nerve for that level of cooking yet!
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As part of our anti-spam campaign, please input the text you see in this image (required) « Maurice Sendak to scaredy-cat parents: go to hell
Book of Books 2009
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Secondly, the closer I reach 40, the more “scaredy-cat” I become.
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This is not a book for wimps, and if you are a scaredy-cat, it will teach you how to grow claws.
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It is scaredy-cat and sheepish behavior, succumbing to Republicrat propaganda and terror tactics and other dominant-submissive phenomena, that enables those scoundrels to maintain their corporate masters 'strangle-hold -- for the time being.
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What viewer spectrum, other than the scaredy-cat bigots who follow the Florida Family Association's hateful blog?
Kari Ansari: A New Lowe For Anti-Muslim Bigotry Kari Ansari 2011
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I warned John that I was an scaredy-cat city-boy on water.
Binky Philips: I Visit Graceland and Get Kurt Cobain's Autograph Binky Philips 2011
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I am still not sure how this particular event occurred as I am probably the biggest scaredy-cat ever, but my teammates convinced me that Saw VI was a Halloween MUST.
On the blueline: One game to go, vs. Canada, gold at stake 2010
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What viewer spectrum, other than the scaredy-cat bigots who follow the Florida Family Association's hateful blog?
Kari Ansari: A New Lowe For Anti-Muslim Bigotry Kari Ansari 2011
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Ok you scaredy-cat replied Ava, actually feeling frightened herself but trying not to show it.
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