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[syn: weakling, doormat, wuss]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.
--Latimer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Weakling \Weak"ling\, a.
Weak; feeble. --Sir T. North.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
weakling
n 1: a person who is physically weak and ineffectual [syn:
weakling, doormat, wuss]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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