pantywaist

Definitions

1. 1

   Weak, timid, effeminate, ineffectual.

   • His rough, burly father was mortified by the lad's pantywaist behavior.
2. 2

   An undergarment composed, in part, of panties attached to a waistband.

   • Lace trimmed panty waists—50 cents.
3. 3

   An ineffectual, weak, or timid person, especially a boy or young man

   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.

The neighborhood

• synonymnestle-cock
• synonymsofty
• synonymwuss
• synonymmilksop
• neighborman panties