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scaredy-cat slang.|ˈskɛədɪkæt|
[f. scared ppl. a. + -y6 + cat n.1]
A timorous person, a coward; = fraidy cat s.v. 'fraid a. Also as adj., scared, and ellipt., as scaredy.
1933D. Parker After Such Pleasures (1934) 86 It's so nice to meet a man who isn't scaredy-cat about catching my beri-beri. 1948D. Ballantyne Cunninghams 173 Sydney called them scaredy-cats because they wouldn't run like he had. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 185 The boy..who will not take part in a prank..is a ‘scaredy’, a ‘scare-baby’. 1965‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest xii. 149 You can play hard-to-get but don't look so scaredy-cat. 1980H. R. F. Keating Murder of Maharajah iii. 57 You know your mother, always was a scaredy-cat. |