MEANING
A person condemned as cowardly.
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Words that belong together
- call someone a poltroon
- contemptible poltroon
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The officer called him a poltroon.
She refused to play the poltroon in his story.
The play uses poltroon as an insult.
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Usage notes
Primary category: fear. Forms: Singular poltroon; plural poltroons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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