Usually means: Cowardly, lacking courage or resolution.
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  1. poltroon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. poltroon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. poltroon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. poltroon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. poltroon: Vocabulary.com
  6. poltroon: Wordnik
  7. poltroon: Wiktionary
  8. poltroon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. poltroon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. poltroon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Poltroon, poltroon: Dictionary.com
  12. poltroon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Poltroon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Poltroon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. poltroon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. poltroon: Rhymezone
  17. Poltroon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. poltroon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. poltroon: Free Dictionary
  20. poltroon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. poltroon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. poltroon: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. poltroon: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Poltroon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. poltroon: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. poltroon: A Word A Day
  2. poltroon: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poltroon: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See poltroons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (poltroon)

noun:  An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.
adjective:  Cowardly.

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