- feardy gowk
- A Scottish children’s expression for a child who is thought to be cowardly. ‘Gowk’ literally means ‘cuckoo’.See also scaredy-cat.
A dictionary of epithets and terms of address . Leslie Dunkling . 2015.
feardy gowk
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scaredy-cat — A taunt used by children to a child who will not accept a dare. In The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence, a child touches the face of a dead baby, then dares her friends to do the same. When they refuse to do so she calls them scaredy cats.… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
