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  • Cowardy Custard — book and album with the same image of Coward. The programme has the Mermaid Theatre s standard cover. Cowardy Custard is a musical revue and was one of the last Noël Coward shows staged during his life. It was devised by Gerard Frow, Alan… …   Wikipedia

  • cowardy custard — /kaʊədi ˈkʌstəd/ (say kowuhdee kustuhd) noun (with children) a coward: cowardy, cowardy custard …  

  • cowardy — …   Useful english dictionary

  • custard, cowardy cowardy —    This is the traditional taunt of British children to a child who is considered to be cowardly. Those who use the term would be hard put to it to explain the custard reference, though the fact that custard is yellow, and yellowness is… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • Noël Coward — Noël Coward, 1972 Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called a sense of personal style, a… …   Wikipedia

  • Oh, Coward! — is a musical revue in two acts devised by Roderick Cook and containing music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The revue consists of two men and one woman in formal dress, performing songs based on the following themes: England, family album, travel,… …   Wikipedia

  • Noël Coward — Noel Coward en su adolescencia Nombre real Noël Peirce Coward Nacimiento 16 de diciembre de 1899 …   Wikipedia Español

  • Jonathan Cecil — Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne Cecil, bekannt als Jonathan Cecil, (* 22. Februar 1939 in London; † 22. September 2011 ebenda) war ein britischer Schauspieler. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben 1.1 Familie und Ausbildung 1.2 Theat …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • coward —    In Act One of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist, when Face and Subtle are having a slanging match, Subtle calls his housekeeper ‘Cow herd!’ Perhaps Jonson himself, and his audience, assumed that this was the original form of ‘coward’, though… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • scaredy-cat —    A taunt used by children to a child who will not accept a dare. In The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence, a child touches the face of a dead baby, then dares her friends to do the same. When they refuse to do so she calls them scaredy cats.… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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