Weakling

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weakling \Weak"ling\, n. [Weak + -ling.]
     A weak or feeble creature. --Shak. "All looking on him as a
     weakling, which would post to the grave." --Fuller.
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           We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.


                                                    --Latimer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weakling \Weak"ling\, a.
     Weak; feeble. --Sir T. North.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  weakling
       n : a person who is physically weak and ineffectual [syn: {doormat},
            {wuss}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "weakling":
     Milquetoast, baby, big baby, blank cartridge, butt, castrato,
     chicken, chicken liver, coward, crybaby, doormat, drip, dud,
     dull tool, eunuch, faintly, fence-sitter, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat,
     funk, funker, gelding, gutless wonder, impotent, incompetent,
     invalid, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, lily liver, mark,
     meek soul, milksop, misfit, mollycoddle, mouse, mugwump,
     namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover,
     sad sack, scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, shrinking violet, sissy,
     softling, softy, sop, sotto voce, sucker, waverer, weak sister,
     weakly, white feather, white liver, wobbler