cowardess

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noun

A female coward.

Scrabble 15
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Meanings

nouncowardess (plural cowardesses)

plural cowardesses

  1. rareA female coward.

    […] he began to yell and insult me, calling me a cowardess, a bugger, and a broken-bottomed whore.

    2016, John M. Hunt, The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum

Origin

From coward + -ess.

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APA

cowardess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowardess

MLA

“cowardess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowardess. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cowardess,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowardess.

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