caitiff

English - Turkish

Definition of caitiff in English Turkish dictionary

alçak adam

korkak

aşağılık

alçak

bayağı

{i} aşağılık kimse

{i} alçak kimse

Related Terms

cowardly

{s} ödlek

cowardly

korkakça

Bu korkakçaydı, üzgünüm. - It was cowardly, and I'm sorry.

cowardly

cesaretsiz

Tom utangaç ve cesaretsizdir. - Tom is shy and cowardly.

cowardly

yüreksiz

cowardly

kansız

cowardly

namertçe

cowardly

{s} alçak

cowardly

{s} namert

cowardly

alçakça

cowardly

yüreksizce

cowardly

{s} korkak

Bu korkakçaydı, üzgünüm. - It was cowardly, and I'm sorry.

Köpek ne kadar küçük ve korkaksa, o kadar kızgın havlar. - The smaller and cowardly the dog, the angrier it barks.

English - English

Definition of caitiff in English English dictionary

a captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave

A base or despicable person; a wretch

Especially despicable; cowardly

Fair Lady?.

a villain, a coward or wretch

Late C14: For, certes, lord, þer is noon of us alle / Þat she ne haþ been a duchesse or a queene. / Now be we caytyves, as it is wel seene, / Þanked be Fortune and hire false wheel — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales.

cowardly

{n} a base fellow, villain, knave, wretch

{a} mean, base, sorry, despicable, knavish

A despicable or cowardly person

a cowardly and despicable person despicably mean and cowardly

a cowardly and despicable person

Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable

despicably mean and cowardly

{i} coward; cowardly person; nasty person, mean person

a captive or prisoner

A wretched or unfortunate man

A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet

A captive; a prisoner

{s} cowardly; mean in a nasty manner; despicable, contemptible, nasty

Captive; wretched; unfortunate

Hyphenation

cai·tiff

Etymology

() Old French caitif ‘captive’, a varient of chaitif (French chétif), from a Proto-Romance alteration of Latin captivus ‘captive’. Compare Italian cattivo, "bad, wicked."