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Word For The Day,

Posted on 06/17/2015 2:10:03 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

poltroon

hear it pronounced

adjective

Def: 1. characterized by complete cowardice

Origin: First use - 1845

Related forms:

chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-livered, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], cowardly, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.




TOPICS: Poetry; Reference
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Here is a quirky little word for Humpday. Lots of public figures to choose from.

The rank of poltroon is just above Colonel and just below CIC, not to exclude either.

1 posted on 06/17/2015 2:10:03 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell; xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

A great word to get us over the hump. (my new day) Have at it scribes.
Custom awards for everyone. We are an equal praise disseminator.


2 posted on 06/17/2015 2:13:53 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Poltroon?

Isn’t he the president of Russia? Or am I pronouncing it incorrectly?


3 posted on 06/17/2015 2:20:21 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: WayneS
I believe you are referring to an antonym of poltroon, a spectacular belligerent and noteworthy Cacafuego, Commissar Putin. Nice try, though.

Honorable Mention Award:


4 posted on 06/17/2015 2:55:46 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

This current administration: a platoon of poltroons.


5 posted on 06/17/2015 3:14:00 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Chainmail
Indeed they are.

Hold their feet to the fire. See how loudly the pigs squeal.

Captain Obvious Award


6 posted on 06/17/2015 3:20:53 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Good morning. Thank you for taking the sub job.


7 posted on 06/17/2015 3:47:43 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Obama still makes his followers swoon
Although he’s proven he’s a feckless poltroon
Free food stamps and phones
Beget their happiest moans
Groupie parasites are easy to lampoon


8 posted on 06/17/2015 4:37:15 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
This is precisely why I put "Word" in the poetry category.

That and "word" is missing from my list.

Great rhyming.

I think the limerick award is yours today.


9 posted on 06/17/2015 4:59:42 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: secret garden; RikaStrom; SeaDragon; xsmommy
The poltroons be damned.
I'm just happy that it's been > 20 minutes without rain here!
10 posted on 06/17/2015 5:19:38 AM PDT by TheGrimReaper (Govt schools, govt medicine....what could possibly go wrong?)
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To: TheGrimReaper

glad to hear you aren’t floating away!


11 posted on 06/17/2015 5:41:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Louis Foxwell
no poltroons here.
12 posted on 06/17/2015 5:42:57 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Gutsy is as gutsy does. Some Christians are the bravest of all.

Pearls of Wisdom Award:


13 posted on 06/17/2015 5:48:38 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: secret garden

I switched out from Friday because my mind stops working on Thursday and I completely lose track of the week. But thanks.


14 posted on 06/17/2015 5:50:15 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell; tioga; secret garden; SoothingDave; NeoCaveman; TruthShallSetYouFree; ...
Michelle Malkin's beautiful young daughter is anything but a poltroon. sooo very sad and scary for them, prayers for her.
15 posted on 06/17/2015 6:41:20 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Dear, God. What a horror. Prayers up.


16 posted on 06/17/2015 6:48:19 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Louis Foxwell

poltroon : the opposite of poltrooff


17 posted on 06/17/2015 6:54:40 AM PDT by Cowman
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To: Louis Foxwell

This sounds like a Bugs Bunny word.


18 posted on 06/17/2015 7:22:46 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Cwazy wabbit. I can hear Bugs saying “poltroon” now.


19 posted on 06/17/2015 7:42:21 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: WayneS

After Obola’s high-speed rail hit the water, it became a pooltrain.

But his swansong was done by an ex-rock-and-roll band headed by Jessie Pooltrain.


20 posted on 06/17/2015 7:55:57 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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