# reluctant dragon

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A reluctant person; somebody unwilling to get involved.

## Etymology
In reference to The Reluctant Dragon, an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame about a shy dragon with no desire to fight people, adapted into a Walt Disney animated film in 1941.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/reluctant-dragon