pantywaist
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pantywaist
adjective
- Weak, timid, effeminate, ineffectual. His rough, burly father was mortified by the lad's pantywaist behavior.
noun pantywaists
- An undergarment composed, in part, of panties attached to a waistband. Lace trimmed panty waists—50 cents.
- An ineffectual, weak, or timid person, especially a boy or young man; a sissy. 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.
Similar: nestle-cock, softy, wuss
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noun
Similar: nestle-cock, softy, wuss
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title = {pantywaist},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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