scaredy-cat

nounmasculineinformal/mɨˈðɾikɐʃ/low

me·dri·cas

Definition

A person who is easily frightened, a coward.

Don't be such a scaredy-cat, the dog is friendly.

He's a real scaredy-cat when it comes to horror movies.

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Common collocations

be a scaredy-catthat scaredy-cat

Derivado do verbo 'medrar' com o sufixo '-icas', de origem expressiva.