Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A timid or unadventurous person: "the impression that he is a colorless, indecisive wimp, and not a leader among men” ( James J. Kilpatrick).
- v. To be timid or cowardly. Usually used with out: wimped out and refused to jump off the high diving board.
Wiktionary
- n. pejorative, slang someone who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- n. alternative spelling of WIMP.
- v. intransitive To behave submissively, inde.
- v. transitive To render wimpy.
Etymologies
- Perhaps from whimper. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Melvin†™ s whiny wimp is excellent, Sarah†™ s blind act was incredibly goofy and over-the-top without being too distracting, and Toxie†¦ well, there†™ s not much to say about Toxie.”
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“She sound just like a Candidate who can beat a wimp, and that wimp is Obama, who is soft, and an empty suit with no substance and afraid to debate Hillary, He is Ducking a debate with Hillary because he does not have a clue.”
“This wimp is not fit to shine McCain's combat boots, much less be President of the Greatest Nation on Earth.”
“If you look up the word wimp in the dictionary, you will find Boehner's picture.”
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“Wamp aka wimp is speaking the truth as he and his GOP team see it.”
“I, however, will NOT be using a real drill, for God's sake, what a friggin 'wimp!”
“He broke out the godforsaken "L" word, and tried to tell everyone he's a tax-raisin 'wimp who needs permission from the french to wipe his ass.”
“It wasn't too long before that that Newsweek had a cover which they used the word wimp on the cover to talk about George Bush.”
“You know, Newsweek had run the article and put the word wimp on the cover and all of that.”
“MOUNDSVILLE -- The Marshall County mother accused of burning the word wimp into her child's neck is scheduled for another court appearance.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wimp’.
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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The Nerd
All the names any successful nerd can ever hope to be called.
dweeb, dork, drip, oaf, egghead, geek, twit, goofball, loser, swot, wimp, bonehead and 5 more...
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What is a man?
Masculine archetypes and stereotypes, glorifications and vilifications.
This is in line with Femmesque, though narrower in its aim. I want simply the loaded nouns that denote a man's...cuckold, provider, rapist, messiah, hero, demon lover, animus, the man in the bu..., loser, mr. right, stud, bloke and 18 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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The Roaring Twenties
A selection of words and phrases that entered the language between 1920 and 1929. Primary sources for this list are:
There's a Word For It by Sol Steinmetz (2010, Harmony Books, New Y...nobrow, booboisie, robot, It girl, scofflaw, Babbitt, bozo, feedback, icky, daiquiri, subprime, T-shirt and 27 more...
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Coward!
caitiff, craven, cur, dastard, funk, malingerer, poltroon, recreant, Scaramouch, invertebrate, jellyfish, fraidy cat and 53 more...
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Favourite Insults
wanker, bozo, crackpot, twerp, smarty pants, clodhopper, blackguard, frump, wimp, bumpkin, dick head, chump and 37 more...
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