MEANING
A person described teasingly as easily frightened.
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- call someone a scaredy-cat
- be a scaredy-cat
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He called her a scaredy-cat for avoiding the shed.
The child insisted he was not a scaredy-cat.
She disliked the teasing word scaredy-cat.
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- scaredy-cat
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Usage notes
Primary category: fear. Forms: Singular scaredy-cat; plural scaredy-cats. Variant scaredy cat. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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