flinch
verb (used without object)
to draw back or shrink, as from what is dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant.
flincher
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a word derived from
flinch.
Example Sentences
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We mustered about fifty in all; but there was not a flincher among us.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
I said some time after to the waiter that "Mr. Mouncey was no flincher."
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Nevertheless, he scorned to be thought a flincher, and made shift to tope to him on the square.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
I got no praise certainly for this, but I escaped blame; and I saw by the way the other mizzen-top men treated me, that they considered me a smart lad, and no flincher.
From Peter the Whaler by Henry Austin
"I shall never give Lorance de Montluc to a white-livered flincher."
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
