cowardess

English

Etymology

coward +‎ -ess

Noun

cowardess (plural cowardesses)

1. (rare) A female coward.
   • 2016, John M. Hunt, The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum‎^[1]:

     […] he began to yell and insult me, calling me a cowardess, a bugger, and a broken-bottomed whore.