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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(informal, especially of a male person) Weak, timid, effeminate, ineffectual..
His rough, burly father was mortified by the lad's pantywaist behavior.
Lace trimmed panty waists—50 cents.
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.
She stared at the metal bars hanging from the wood beams of the ceiling. Lined handcuffs dangled from the ends. The dungeon master would suspend his handcuffed victim from that horizontal bar. “Don’t be a pantywaist, baby. This is what you wanted.”
Use pantywaist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pantywaist means (informal, especially of a male person) Weak, timid, effeminate, ineffectual..
Common synonyms include nestle-cock, softy, wuss, sissy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His rough, burly father was mortified by the lad's pantywaist behavior.
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