wimp
noun
[ wɪmp ]
• a weak and cowardly or unadventurous person.
Similar:
coward,
weakling,
namby-pamby,
mouse,
drip,
sissy,
weed,
snowflake,
mummy's boy,
milksop,
doormat,
wuss,
jellyfish,
crybaby,
scaredy-cat,
chicken,
wet,
big girl's blouse,
jessie,
chinless wonder,
cream puff,
yellow-belly,
candy-ass,
cupcake,
pantywaist,
milquetoast,
nebbish,
pussy,
sook,
moffie,
poltroon,
wimp
verb
• fail to do or complete something as a result of fear or lack of confidence.
• "anyone who wimped out because of the weather missed the experience of a lifetime"
Origin:
1920s: origin uncertain, perhaps from whimper.
WIMP
noun
• a set of software features and hardware devices (such as windows, icons, mice, and pull-down menus) designed to simplify or demystify computing operations for the user.
• "WIMP user interfaces"
Origin:
1980s: acronym.
WIMP
noun
• a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass which interacts only weakly with ordinary matter, postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe.
Origin:
1980s: acronym from weakly interacting massive particle .
