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covetous, adj. 1. desirous, greedy, avaricious, grasping, acquisitive, Sl. grabby, rapacious; selfish, hoarding, possessive; miserly, penurious, parsimonious, grudging, niggardly; stingy, mean, close fisted, tight-fisted, close, Inf. tight, penny-pinching; mercenary, venal, usurious.
2. ravenous, ravening, voracious, devouring, gluttonous, gormandizing, cormorant, edacious; openmouthed, hoggish, piggish, swinish; insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, omnivorous.
3. eager, avid, cupidinous, fain, Archaic, lickerish; anxious, breathless, impatient, longing, thirsty, athirst; ardent, agog, zealous, fervent, burning; ambitious, aspiring, hungry, craving, esurient.
4. lustful, lecherous, libidinous, lascivious, salacious, concupiscent, carnal, prurient.
covetousness, n. 1. desire, greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, self-seeking, egocentricity, self-interest, self-indulgence; miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, closefistedness, tight-fistedness, mercenariness, venality, usurious, sordidness.
2. eagerness, cupidity, avidity, yearning, craving; keenness, itch, itching, appetite, stomach, U.S. Dial. big eye, appetence; anxiousness, breathlessness, impatience, longing, thirst, ardor, zeal, fervency, passion, mania; hankering, aspiration, hunger, lust, ambitiousness.
3. ravenousness, voraciousness, gluttony, edacity, open-mouthedness, hoggishness, piggishness, swinishness; insatiability, insatiateness, omnivorousness, gulosity.
covey, n. brood, bevy, flock, Rare, nide; group, company, body, set, outfit, gang, crew,
cow', n. bovine, heifer, U.S. bossy, Dial, critter, Sl. moo-cow.
2. till the cows come home for a long time, forever, forever and a day. See - forever. cow2, v. intimidate, overawe, awe, daunt, dismay, dishearten; terrify, petrify, frighten, affright, scare; threaten, domineer, buffalo, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, push around, bullyrag; subdue, overcome, break,
coward, n. poltroon, dastard, craven, recreant, Archaic. caitiff, Archaic, niddering; yellowbelly, mouse, baby, big baby, wheyface, invertebrate, Inf. jellyfish, Inf. fraidy-cat, Inf. scaredy-cat, Inf. nervous nellie, Sl. chicken, Sl. weak sister; sissy, weakling, milksop, Milquetoast, mollycoddle, Inf. pantywaist.
cowardice, n. pusillanimity, timidity, timorousness, faint-heartedness, weak-heartedness, Inf. chickenheartedness; poltroonery, dastardliness, recreancy, cravenness, cowardliness; faint heart, weak knees, white feather, Inf. chicken heart, Inf. funk, Sl. cold feet, Sl. yellow streak.
cowardly, adj. craven, poltroon, dastardly, base, recreant, Archaic, niddering, Archaic, caitiff; pusillanimous, timorous, timid, fearful, afraid, frightened, afraid of one's shadow, not having the heart, unmanly, faint-hearted, lily-livered, white-livered, Inf. chicken-hearted, Inf. chicken-livered, Inf. pantywaist, Inf. yellow, Sl. yellow-bellied, Sl. candy-assed.
cowboy, n. cowpuncher, cowpoke, cow hand, bronco, Western U.S. buckaroo, Southwestern U.S. vaquero, gaucho; drover, cowherd, cattle-herder, Chiefly Brit. grazier, Brit, cowman, Obs. neatherd,
cower, v. 1. cringe, shrink, flinch, wince, quail, recoil, blench, Inf. funk, Sl. mooch; shake, tremble, quiver, Inf. shake in one's boots or shoes; kowtow, bow, bow before, bow to, bow and scrape.
2. skulk, slink, slither, sneak; grovel, wallow, welter.
3. All Brit. Dial, stoop, squat, hunch, crouch, slouch.
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