"poltroon" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1727, Daniel Defoe, edited by J. Roberts, An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions, London, Chapter 8, page 144",
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          "ref": "1951, P. G. Wodehouse, 'The Old Reliable', London: Hutchinson, published 1981, page 162",
          "text": "The sounds outside had ceased...But somebody had been there, and she proposed to look into the matter thoroughly. There was nothing of the poltroon about Adela Shannon Cork",
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          "text": "First is our unbreakable rule that every candidate must be a trained trooper, blooded under fire, a veteran of combat drops. No other army in history has stuck to this rule, although some came close. Most great military schools of the past — Saint Cyr, West Point, Sandhurst, Colorado Springs didn’t even pretend to follow it; they accepted civilian boys, trained them, commissioned them, sent them out with no battle experience to command men... and sometimes discovered too late that this smart young ‘officer’ was a fool, a poltroon, or a hysteric.",
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          "roman": "žalǎk strahlivec",
          "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
          "word": "жалък страхливец"
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          "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
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          "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
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          "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
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          "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
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          "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
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          "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
          "word": "rajado"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
          "word": "gallina"
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          "word": "טרוס"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
      "word": "blandengue"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
      "word": "pendejo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
      "word": "rajado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
      "word": "gallina"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "trus",
      "sense": "an ignoble or arrant coward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "טרוס"
    }
  ],
  "word": "poltroon"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Italian",
    "English terms derived from Middle French",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "Rhymes:English/uːn",
    "Rhymes:English/uːn/2 syllables",
    "en:Fear",
    "en:People"
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        "2": "frm",
        "3": "poltron"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French poltron",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "it",
        "3": "poltrone"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian poltrone",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French poltron, from Italian poltrone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more poltroon",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most poltroon",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "poltroon (comparative more poltroon, superlative most poltroon)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1926, T. E. Lawrence, “Chapter 82”, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom",
          "text": "Accordingly, to excuse our deliberate inactivity in the north, we had to make a show of impotence, which gave them to understand that the Arabs were too poltroon to cut the line near Maan and keep it cut.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Cowardly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Cowardly",
          "cowardly"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɒlˈtɹuːn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɑlˈtɹun/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɔlˈtɹun/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/polˈtɹun/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːn"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "poltron"
    }
  ],
  "word": "poltroon"
}