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wussy

[ woos-ee ]

adjective

wussier, wussiest.
  1. weak and overly timid or fearful; wimpy:

    I would try liver mush or any other traditional Southern food in a heartbeat, but a lot of people are too wussy to try anything new.



noun

plural wussies.
  1. Also wuss·ie. wuss.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wussy1

wuss ( def ) + -y 1( def ) for the adjective; wuss ( def ) + -y 2( def ) for the noun
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Example Sentences

Of one candidate, she blurts out — in an example of Huneven’s spot-on dialogue — “I’m not impressed by some wussy bread baker … who wears black dress socks with his Birkenstocks.”

Milley is now likely in for another round of prep school Republicans calling him a wussy war-losing scumbag, as a new book documents some of the insults Milley lobbed Trumpov’s way when he was actively trying to prevent Trumpov from launching a coup.

From Slate

With great fanfare, the Republican Party announced in June that it would move the crowded portions of its convention—including the president’s nomination acceptance speech—to Jacksonville, Florida, after being unable to strike a deal with North Carolina’s incorrigible Democratic governor and his wussy concerns about “not dying.”

From Slate

If this had happened in the United States, the solution might have been simple — for safety purposes, our bathroom doors are generally made so they can be jimmied with a tool as primitive as a toothpick or a paper clip — but Zambian rooms aren’t that wussy.

The point is, even we, the wussy day campers who couldn’t handle being outdoors or away from our families for too long, told ghost stories.

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