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wimpish, a. slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈwɪmpɪʃ|
[f. wimp2 + -ish1.]
Characteristic of a ‘wimp’; feeble, ineffectual; snivelling. Freq. of persons.
1925S. Lewis Arrowsmith xxvi. 288 They looked like lunching grocers: brisk featureless young men;..wimpish little men with spectacles, men whose collars did not meet. 1977Sounds 9 July 30/6 The ever so slightly wimpish ‘Give Me Some Time’. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xiii. 255 You call that wimpish asshole and say good-bye. 1982Mail on Sunday 2 May 13/3 The wimpish young schoolmaster. 1983Times 28 May Suppl. 1/5 The only motive for reading it may be to swank about it at literary cocktail parties, which is a wet and wimpish reason. 1985Times 11 Feb. 14/1 The Duke of Edinburgh had adopted a new ‘limp’ handshake... Expecting something flabby and wimpish, the men got royal bonecrushers.
Hence ˈwimpishness, ineffectual character or behaviour; feebleness.
1978Oxford Times 6 Jan. 13/4 Renaissance: Novella (Warner Bros. K 56422)—It's fashionable to sneer at the ‘wimpishness’ of delicate music like this but..I like it. 1983Times 9 Mar. 10/1 If Michael Straight is a wimp (weakling or ‘wet’) as some people allege, the wimpishness is not immediately apparent. 1984Daily Express 17 July 8/1 Now he has raised a coast-to-coast horselaugh by his best ever display of wimpishness. Having sacked the party's incompetent national chairman, he promptly reinstated him in the face of protests. |