Re: [OM] IMG: 40,000!

[Chris Barker]

Thanks, Moose.  That's indeed what it says in my latest reference -- the 
Concise Oxford on my iPhone.  But I was taught at school that it meant 
"small-minded" and that's the meaning of the Latin composition.  It seems a bit 
of a stretch to get from that to "timid", so I'll stick to my meaning, thanks 
(not that I have used it more than a handful of times since school).

Chris

On 18 May 2013, at 04:38, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On 5/14/2013 5:34 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> Just as well, but I don't think that it means that.
> 
> M-W says:
> "pusillanimous*:* lacking courage and resolution *:* marked by contemptible 
> timidity " Other dictionaries of US English 
> are about the same.
> 
> Sounds exactly like a definition of "chicken shit" in US slang usage.
> 
> Well Defined Moose

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