yellow
- adjective
- /ˈjɛloʊ/
- Offensive
- Gaffney turned yellow and is hiding out.
Examples
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I haven't heard anyone insult someone like that since Lars Svensson accused Erik the Red of being a coward and called him yellow.
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You're a miserable, yellow coward, Mr. Shipman
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Yellow like your cowardly selves.
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When faced with a challenge, he often turns yellow and avoids confrontation.
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She called him yellow when he refused to speak up for his friend.
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Feeling yellow, he backed away from the spooky haunted house.
Synonyms
Being too afraid to do things that need courage
Easily frightened and not willing to take risks
Not brave and easily frightened
Being very easily frightened and not brave
Very afraid and not willing to face danger
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To start a journey into the unknown that brings adventure and personal change
Compounds
- Specialized
A serious disease spread by mosquitoes that makes the skin turn yellow
- Literature
Reporting that exaggerates and uses shocking stories to attract readers while ignoring the truth
The second-longest river in northern China that flows east to the Yellow Sea and has yellow mud
A small aggressive wasp with yellow and black stripes that often builds nests in the ground
- Specialized
A bright yellow pigment made from cadmium used in painting that is poisonous
- US
A freshwater fish with a yellow body and dark stripes, caught for food and sport
- Jargon
An alert warning people about a specific emergency, for example bad weather or a missing person
- Literature
A reporter who writes exaggerated or shocking stories to attract readers
A small woodpecker with a pale yellow belly that drills rows of holes in trees to eat sap and insects
- Specialized
A sticky plant with hanging yellow flowers that grows in dry places in the southwestern United States
A small wild flower that has soft hairy leaves and yellow petals with purple veins
- Specialized
A North American wild flower with greenish-yellow pouch-shaped flowers and purple marks
- Irish
A clover with yellow flowers that grows in Ireland and is often seen as the real shamrock
- Specialized
A virus that makes onion plants small and their leaves turn yellow
- Specialized
A virus that makes onion plants grow poorly and their leaves turn yellow
- Specialized
A disease of potato plants that makes leaves yellow and plants small
- Specialized
A germ that makes potato plants small and their leaves turn yellow
- Australian
A tall Australian plant with yellow flowers that comes back each year
A large pine tree with short needles in groups of two or three and reddish brown bark when fully grown
A large pine tree from the southeastern United States with long needles and rough reddish bark used for timber
A plant that lives many years with yellow flowers that smell nice and leafy stems
- Specialized
A small freshwater fish with yellowish colour that looks like a striped bass
- Specialized
A small North American spring flower with one yellow spotted blossom
- Specialized
A small shrub with yellow daisy-like flowers that grows in dry Mediterranean areas
- UK
A low-growing plant with yellow flowers that have red dots and smell faintly of pine
- Specialized
Tissue inside the hollow part of long bones in adults that stores fat
A common plant that lives for many years with small yellow flowers and sticky stems
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Etymology
Yellow meaning 'cowardly' is a later use and one popular idea is that it came from the sick look of 'jaundice', so 'yellow' began to suggest weakness or fear.