Difference between Coward and Poltroon

COWARD vs POLTROON: NOUN

A person who lacks courage.
A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
In heraldry, an animal represented with the tail hanging down, or turned up between the legs, as a lion or other beast of prey. Also coué.
One who lacks courage to meet danger; one who shrinks from exposure to possible harm of any kind; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon; a craven.
A person who shows fear or timidity
One who shows ignoble fear in the face of danger or pain.
English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)

An abject coward
An utter coward.
A lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard; a fellow without spirit or courage; a dastard; a coward.
Synonyms Craven, Dastard, etc. See coward.
An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch.
An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.

Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
Cowardly.

To make afraid.
Lacking courage; timid; timorous; fearful; craven: as, a coward wretch.
Of or pertaining to a coward; proceeding from or expressive of fear or timidity: as, a coward cry; coward tremors.

Faint, Yellow, Chicken, Cringing, Fainthearted, Fearful, Dastardly, Pusillanimous, Timid, Cowering, Craven, Unmanly, Poltroon, Dastard, Cowardly

Sycophant, Braggart, Buffoon, Dullard, Windbag, Oaf, Dunderhead, Pillock, Dolt, Nincompoop, Recreant, Fearful, Cowardly, Coward, Craven

Faint, Yellow, Chicken, Cringing, Fainthearted, Fearful, Dastardly, Pusillanimous, Timid, Cowering, Craven, Unmanly, Poltroon, Dastard, Cowardly

Sycophant, Braggart, Buffoon, Dullard, Windbag, Oaf, Dunderhead, Pillock, Dolt, Nincompoop, Recreant, Fearful, Cowardly, Coward, Craven

General Hux, whom he disdained as a coward.
How they may rush upon the coward foe.
Three dying like heroes, one as a coward.
This guy is a coward - plain and simple.
Michael Reinoehl was nothing if not a coward.
You voted as a coward out of fear.
TYPICAL RACIST COWARD black sheep are the worst.
Mack and Roscoe Coward, both of Lubbock, and Edgar Coward of Houston; one sister, Miss Lottie May Cowart of Lubbock, and two grandchildren.
Noel Coward is great at being Noel Coward, but the role I do best is Cary Grant.
Coward needed to prove that there was a contract in place between Coward and Cole for the lifts to work.