scaredy-cat
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A person who is easily frightened or needlessly afraid. Greg called Joanne a scaredy-cat because she didn't want to go exploring in the woods after dark.
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EVEN THOUGH SHE'S A SCAREDY-CAT, SHE LIKES TO BE AROUND PEOPLE.
He did not want to be called a scaredy-cat, he recalls.
SAN IGNACIO, Mexico - Call me a scaredy-cat, but there's something unsettling about floating in a skiff the size of a double-wide coffin in a lagoon full of whales.
Katharine Isabelle, another victim of Nightmare On Elm Street's Freddy and Friday The 13th's Jason, said: "Kelly is a scaredy-cat.
But for a man who rules by fear to show himself up as such a scaredy-cat is a dangerous move.
I'm big and clumsy, a scaredy-cat and I moan when I don't get to eat right,' he said.
She says: "I'm a scaredy-cat and wouldn't do anything if I felt it was out of my control.
Segments feature a scaredy-cat being coddled into high-diving into a river (not interesting), a skydiver trapped underneath his plane (sort of interesting but told in a rushed fashion) and a guy tumbling down a mountainside (semi-uninteresting).
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