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Meanings of pantywaist in anglès

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A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.

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        Examples for "sissy"
        Examples for "sissy"
        1
        Hold still, you big sissy... Look, Z, let me be honest here.
        Monster Hunter International
        2
        When he says he wants a singe, they call him a sissy.
        The new yorker
        3
        Getting a restraining order-hell, that's kind of a sissy thing to do.
        Depraved
        4
        And I would have never stopped being such a sissy, would I?
        Cooking Up Murder
        5
        But he's kind of sissy for a serial killer, don't you think?
        Death Mask
        1
        Well, they're no pansy flowers, but... m'lord has the truth of it.
        A Game of Thrones
        2
        Already the kids think I'm some kind of pansy because of you.
        Running scared
        3
        You're not going to raise him to be a pansy, are you?
        Labor Day
        4
        It is the pansy brooch that I gave to old Tom Darcy.
        The King’s Curse
        5
        She has heard the word 'pansy', then, and now understands it.
        The great lover
        1
        The session with the milksop from the Foundation had been quite unrewarding.
        Second Foundation
        2
        I am a milksop, as I have had the honour to say.
        The Virginians
        3
        You've gone to all the trouble to kidnap a timid little milksop.
        Helen of troy
        4
        She disliked her elder nephew exceedingly, and despised him as a milksop.
        Vanity Fair
        5
        I called 'un a milksop, and he hath proved me a liar.
        Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
        1
        They channel neither Evel Knievel nor Caspar Milquetoast, neither lion tamer nor monk.
        Wired
        2
        Before long they'll start to disobey us without any Milquetoast interfering with their circuits.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        3
        Dr Milquetoast continued to work, even more energetically than before.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        4
        You've been Caspar Milquetoast Two ever since we left Base.
        Masters of Space
        5
        There have always been Marvin Milquetoast and Walter Mitty kinds of guys out there.
        No More Mr. Nice Guy!
        Usage of pantywaist in anglès
        1
        In that world, what-iffing and problematizing are for pantywaist preachers and theo-babbling ecumenicists.
        The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
        2
        Safire calling me a pantywaist for retracting comment in New Yorker about Nigerians being low-life con artists.
        The new yorker
        3
        But don't think I was one of those pantywaists that had it all given to me.
        All the way
        4
        "Pantywaist," he muttered and turned his gaze from the retreating threat.
        It Must Be Love
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for pantywaist
        portuguès
        boiolabaitola
        Pantywaist through the time