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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This Sir Thomas Dyot I should be disposed to put upon the list of old English worthies—as humane, liberal, and no flincher from what he took in his head.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt
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
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
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
