chicken, chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow

diffident, fainthearted, fearful, timid, timorous

afraid, frightened, scared

careful, cautious, wary

bashful, coy, shy

feeble, soft, unmanly, weak

audacious, bold, , cur, dastard, funk, poltroon, recreant, sissy

defeatist, quitter

cream puff, milquetoast, pushover, pussy [slang], weakling, wimp

caitiff, snake, sneak

ostrich, scaramouch (or scaramouche)

hero, stalwart, valiant

chicken, chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow

diffident, fainthearted, fearful, timid, timorous

afraid, frightened, scared

careful, cautious, wary

bashful, coy, shy

feeble, soft, unmanly, weak

audacious, bold,