Associations to the word «Pantywaist»
Noun
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Wiktionary
PANTYWAIST, adjective. (informal) (dated) (especially of a male person) Weak, timid, effeminate, ineffectual.
PANTYWAIST, noun. (informal) (dated) A children's undergarment composed, in part, of panties attached to a waistband.
PANTYWAIST, noun. (pejorative) (dated) An ineffectual, weak, or timid person, especially a boy or young man; a sissy.
Dictionary definition
PANTYWAIST, noun. A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.