fraidy cat vs recreant

fraidy cat

noun

  • A coward. 

recreant

noun

  • Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor. 

adj

  • Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false. 

How often have the words fraidy cat and recreant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )