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  • n  a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive

  • For all the pollsters' traditional suspicion that Eastern football is a pantywaist version of the brand played elsewhere, Penn State this year linked impressive victories over .
  • It would really be good for "the 'pantywaist brigade' (and isn't that vulgar?)," snapped Cissie, to have a taste of war.
  • The whole center-right-middle-conservative-pantywaist-progressive-whig thing means whatever Joe wants it to means when he writes it.
News & Articles

  • The Vent for Tuesday
    The trial starts next week for the bully that hurt the Parkview student. I hope we don’t get a pantywaist judge.
    April 14, 2014 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Quotes

  • Jimmy Dean in The Virginian-Pilot
    Then that little pantywaist dropped out,Jimmy says.
  • David Mitchell in San Francisco Chronicle
    What happened is we had a shouting match, but then he wrote an absolutely wild police statement that he used to get a temporary restraining order against me,said Mitchell. "If you are an editor and you are too much of a pantywaist that...
  • Gregory Mankiw in New York Times
    Yes, I know this may sound like one of those pantywaist ideas only a pointy-headed Cambridge academic can love,Mr. Mankiw wrote. "But hear me out: by marrying the tax-cutting logic of the Republican right with the environmental concerns of...

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