wuss

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  1. noun Slang A person regarded as weak or timid and especially as unmanly: "Cats are for wusses, dog men say” (Laura Blumenfeld).

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  • Driscoll is adamantly not the "weepy worship dude" he associates with liberal and mainstream evangelical churches, "singing prom songs to a Jesus who is presented as a wuss who took a beating and spent a lot of time putting product in his long hair." —  British Blogs
  • Driscoll is adamantly not the "weepy worship dude" he associates with liberal and mainstream evangelical churches, "singing prom songs to a Jesus who is presented as a wuss who took a beating and spent a lot of time putting product in his long hair." and —  Jewschool
  • Without getting into why both are hilariously over-rated as lyricists, and the latter is a wuss (dry yer eyes mate …), —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • You may seem like a wuss but better a wuss than convicted of a crime that the cops may over look had the wife done it. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • They were trying to use Bill Clinton to paint Obama as a wuss. —  CNN Political Ticker
 

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  1. Probably blend of wimp and pussy1.
 

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