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1 : a child’s garment consisting of shorts buttoned to the waist. 2 : Wimp.
You can use the word pantywaist to talk about an ineffective, weak person – especially a man – although it’s not very nice and is likely to hurt his feelings.
It is applied to men almost everywhere. This offensive definition of “pantywaist” (sometimes hyphenated as “panty-waist”, sometimes rendered “panty waist”) first appeared in the 1930s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, some twenty years later first mention of the garment itself.
: a shy, mild-mannered, or unassertive person.
When someone is called a pantywaist, they are dismissed as weak or shy. The term refers to a baby garment that snapped at the waist, popular in the early 20th century. Some people misinterpret the term as pantywaste, but linguists jokingly call it egg corn.
Definition of Poltroon
(Entry 1 of 2) : a mindless coward : coward. Poltroon. adjective.
noun. US a slang word for prison. origin of the word. C20: from Mexican Spanish jusgado prison, from Spanish: court, from juzgar to judge, from Latin judicāre, from judex a judge; compare pitcher.
sissy in American English
(ˈsɪsi) (noun plural -sies) noun. a female boy or male. a shy or cowardly person.
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