pantywaist

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If you're trying to sell Sarah Palin's oil-rig-working, snowmobile-racing, hunting, commercial fisherman husband as a pantywaist kowtowing to his petulant wife's career ambitions, you had better re-examine your position.

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  1. noun A child's undergarment consisting of a shirt and pants buttoned together at the waist.
  2. noun Slang A boy or man who is considered weak or effeminate.

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  • Hotspur: PS: The pantywaist also paid his respects to religious fanaticism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism. —  New England Republican
  • They actually thought they were fighting the War on Terror, but their new Commander in Chief and the bunch of politically correct, pantywaist loonies who serve under him are afraid of offending Osama bin Laden or some other scum-sucking, head-decapitating terrorist murderers, so they changed horses in mid stream. —  Libertarian Republican
  • Remus is especially painful since he's such a whiny pantywaist. —  Anime Nano!
  • Labatt 50, the most manly and tasty Canadian beer is now in these wimpy pantywaist American style skinny bottles. —  John K Stuff
  • If you're trying to sell Sarah Palin's oil-rig-working, snowmobile-racing, hunting, commercial fisherman husband as a pantywaist kowtowing to his petulant wife's career ambitions, you had better re-examine your position. —  Latest Articles
 

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