Non-meat alternatives such as veggie burgers, frozen entrees and desserts contain hidden sources of gluten. Beware of baked beans, binders, brown rice syrup, hydrolyzed plant and vegetable proteins, vital wheat gluten, seitan and TVP (textured vegetable protein).
A poltroon is a coward. Poltroons have a lack of courage and fortitude. Poltroon is an old-fashioned word for a type of person that exists in every time period: a coward. If you behave in a way that shows no courage or confidence, you're acting like a poltroon. In movies, the villains are often poltroons who are sneaky and devious instead of brave and straightforward.
The poltroon, like the scabbard, is an incumbrance when once the sword is drawn. The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various. But he was no poltroon, to pine at the approach of death; and he nerved himself to meet like a man his inevitable fate. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 Various. That would have been an intolerable whine of a poltroon, adding to her humiliation.