a feeble ineffective person
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wimp•y
(wim′pē),USA pronunciation adj., wimp•i•er, wimp•i•est.
wimp′i•ness, n.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wimp.
- wimp + -y1 1965–70
wimp /wɪmp/USA pronunciation
n. [countable][Informal.]
v.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Informal Termsa weak or timid person.
v.
- Informal Terms wimp out, [no object] to act like a wimp:Don't wimp out on us when we need you!
wimp
(wimp),USA pronunciation [Informal.]
n.
n.
- Informal Termsa weak, ineffectual, timid person.
- Informal Termswimp out,
- to be or act like a wimp.
- to show timidity or cowardice;
chicken out.
- 1915–20, American.; origin, originally uncertain; compare whimper
v.
- Physicsany of a group of weakly interacting elementary particles predicted by various unified field theories, as the W particle and Z-zero particle, that are characterized by relatively large masses.
- west, western(eakly) I(nteracting) M(assive) P(article) 1985–90
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