caitiff

Oznaczający (Angielski)

Noun

1. A base or despicable person; a wretch.
2. (obsolete) A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave.
3. (archaic) A villain, a coward or wretch.

Adj

Especially despicable; cowardly

Synonimy

cowardly

poltroon

bastard

beastly

beggarly

brock

chicken-hearted

chicken-livered

chickenshit

clutch

coward

craven

creep

cringer

crud

crum

crump

cur

currish

dastardly

drip

faint-hearted

forlorn

frog

🐸

fucker

gink

gook

grifter

groveller

heck

jerk

lowlife

low life

miserable

putrid

raff

recreant

riffraff

rip

rotter

schlep

schlepp

schmo

schmuck

schnook

scoundrel

scum

scut

shit

💩

slicker

slime

so and so

son of a bitch

son of a gun

squalid

stinker

thug

turd

unblessed

unblest

unmanly

villainous

wretched

ratfink

retromingent

scumbag

smooth operator

niddering

poltroonish

schmoe

chicken-shit

courageless

mother fucker

scum bag

slimebag

fraidy

cowardy

recrayed

douchebag

sonofobitch

crumb bum

smacko

crum-bum

ass maggot

sona'bitch'u

abject

ratink

base

Tłumaczenia

lafhartig

schelm

feig

Hundsfott

Schweinehund

gemein

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/ˈkeɪtɪf/

Etymologia (Angielski)

Dziedziczone z średnioangielski: caitif

Pokrewny z starofrancuski: chaitif

Pokrewny z francuski: chétif

Pokrewny z średniowieczny niderlandzki: keytyf

Pokrewny z włoski: cattivo

In summary

From Middle English caitif, from Anglo-Norman caitif (“captive”), akin to Old French chaitif (French chétif) and Middle Dutch keytyf, from a Vulgar Latin *cactīvus alteration via Gaulish influence from Latin captīvus (“captive”); compare Italian cattivo (“bad, wicked”). Doublet of captive.