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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.

• sissy
• pansy
• milksop
• Milquetoast

News & Articles

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• 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

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• 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...