• brave, hearty, man of nerves, man of stomach
• to buoy up, to encourage, to hearten, to incite, to nerve
• audaciousness, audacity, bravery, courage, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, heart, manhood, nerve, pluck, prowess, spirit, spunk, valor, valour, vent
• be of good cheer!, buck up!
• encouragement, incitement
• can't say bo to a goose, diffident, faint, faint-hearted, half-hearted, pusillanimous, shy, timid, timorous
• diffidently, pusillanimously
• to give sy a pat on the back
• timidity, timidness, timorousness
• to egg sy on to do sg, to egg sy to do sg
• his courage is oozing away
• to take the liberty to do sg
• signal instance of courage