Definitions

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  • adjective obsolete Cowardly.

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  • adjective obsolete cowardly
  • adjective A base and a cowardish mind.

Etymologies

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coward +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • July 23, 2008 at 4:56 am i haz also kept chickenz and dey are bery chickenish, meaning bery cowardish… dey would run away if dey see da kitteh within seeing range!

    Tweet tweet - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • This custom of buying and selling adversaries among other people is disallowed, as a cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind.

    The Second Book. Of Warfare 1909

  • Here be a couple of knights cowardish and scabbed!

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • But to me, it would have been a shallow, cheap, and cowardish lie if I would have formed a

    TheGauntlet.com 2009

  • I hope the everyone of those cowardish / liberal / godless people out there got the message!

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008

  • How can a company like you be then so cheap and cowardish and not mention the ports of the new macbook at your presentation while showing the ports for the new macbook pro?

    Discussions: Message List - root 2008

  • "[A] s a doctor, I find it an extremely cowardish [sic] way of fighting a war, sitting in an airplane, an F-16 above a prison with 1.5 million people who have no whatsoever chance of escaping.

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

  • "[A] s a doctor, I find it an extremely cowardish [sic] way of fighting a war, sitting in an airplane, an F-16 above a prison with 1.5 million people who have no whatsoever chance of escaping.

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

  • "But to me, it would have been a shallow, cheap, and cowardish lie if I would have formed a

    BLABBERMOUTH.NET Latest News 2009

  • "[A] s a doctor, I find it an extremely cowardish [sic] way of fighting a war, sitting in an airplane, an F-16 above a prison with 1.5 million people who have no whatsoever chance of escaping.

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

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