Pantywaist

Quick meaning: Pantywaist is an adjective meaning (informal, especially of a male person) Weak, timid, effeminate, ineffectual.

Meaning

(informal, especially of a male person) Weak, timid, effeminate, ineffectual.

More Meanings

1. (informal, dated) An undergarment composed, in part, of panties attached to a waistband.
2. (informal, derogatory) An ineffectual, weak, or timid person, especially a boy or young man; a sissy.

Example Sentences

Lace trimmed panty waists—50 cents.

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

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.”

Word Forms

• pantywaists

Synonyms for pantywaist

Depending on context, synonyms include nestle-cock, softy, wuss, sissy, pansy, milquetoast.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include milquetoast, sissy, milksop, pansy, piss weak, white-shoe.

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