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112 wordies list
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jamhanesque (14 words)
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Lily-livered.
:)
JIMMY: I looked up that word the other day. It's one of those words I've never been quite sure of, but always thought I knew.
CLIFF: What was that?
JIMMY: I told you—pusillanimous. Do you know what it means?
Cliff shakes his head.
Neither did I really. All this time, I have been married to this woman, this monument to non-attachment, and suddenly I discover that there is actually a word that sums her up. Not just an adjective in the English language to describe her with—it's her name! Pusillanimous! It sounds like some fleshy Roman matron, doesn't it? The Lady Pusillanimous seen here with her husband Sextus, on their way to the Games.
—John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
Hmmm... The Wiz.... *thinks*
I always think of the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (the movie). The Wiz uses this word on him.
I believe it is. A small-ish one with little cat feet and a large feather on the top of his head.
Isn't that a dinosaur of some kind?
Makes me think of pussinbootsimous
Shrivel and die, you pusillanimous wimp!
-- SMAC insult given to head of U.N.
I guess this is an onomatopoeia because it sounds similar to what it means.
"Don't be such a pussy cat!" is how I remember this :).
Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful.