wimps in English

noun

1

a weak and cowardly or unadventurous person.

Consequently, compared with wild mice, lab mice are wimps - slower, weaker, and less active - even if both have lived their entire lives in cages the size of a shoe box.

synonyms: coward, namby-pamby, pantywaist, milksop, weakling, milquetoast, sissy, wuss, pansy, candy-ass, scaredy-cat, chicken, twinkie, cupcake, poltroon

verb

1

withdraw from a course of action or a stated position in a way that is seen as feeble or cowardly.

In fact the radicals simply wimped out for fear of having their pants sued off.

noun

1

a graphical user interface designed to simplify or demystify computing operations.

2

a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts only weakly with ordinary matter, postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe.

noun

coward, namby-pamby, pantywaist, milksop, weakling, milquetoast, sissy, wuss, pansy, candy-ass, scaredy-cat, chicken, twinkie, cupcake, poltroon
weakly interacting massive particle
chicken, crybaby

Use "wimps" in a sentence

1. Vodka is for wimps?

2. Is for wimps, anyway.

3. Most chickenhawks (and the Chickenshits who enable them) are wimps

4. People say Autorouters will never be better than humans, and only wimps use Autorouters and they get crappy layouts

5. Multilateralists, we are told, want to outsource American foreign and security policy to a bunch of garlic chewing, cheese eating wimps.