Quakebuttock

Quick meaning: Quakebuttock is a noun meaning (obsolete, rare, now humorous) A coward.

Meaning

(obsolete, rare, now humorous) A coward.

Example Sentences

Have pity on we poor wretched sinners / We blatherskites and lopdoodles / Lickspiggots and clinchpoops / Quibberdicks and Quakebuttocks.

From hurtful facts I fain won't hide / (I'm not that quakebuttock, weak type who'd / Turn face from fear: I never shied / From vulgar verities others shooed), [...]

Not fitting speech, Kor. Quakebuttock, some would have called him. Coward. But I knew he was no coward, and though I wanted to rail at him in anger, heartache would not let me. Not yet.

'You really do look like you're going to cry,' Em replied (with her mouth). 'Are you sure you're all right?' / 'Yes!' I insisted. 'I'm not a complete quakebuttock, you know!' / Yes! (Quakebuttock is a new word I learned weeks ago and have been meaning to slip into conversation ever since.)

Word Forms

• quakebuttocks
• quake-buttock

Synonyms for quakebuttock

Depending on context, synonyms include quakebreech, bottler, caitiff, candy-ass, candy-arse, coistril.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quake-buttock, quakebreech, chucklebutt, wagon, quat, rumpscuttle.

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