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Pantywaist

adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Weak, timid, effeminate, ineffectual. especially, informal, not-comparable

    "His rough, burly father was mortified by the lad's pantywaist behavior."

Noun
  1. 1
    An undergarment composed, in part, of panties attached to a waistband. dated, informal

    "Lace trimmed panty waists—50 cents."

  2. 2
    a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive wordnet
  3. 3
    An ineffectual, weak, or timid person, especially a boy or young man; a sissy. derogatory, informal

    "Don't be misled by the British tendency to be soft-spoken and polite. The English language didn't spread across the oceans and over the mountains and jungles and swamps because these people were pantywaists."

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