wussy

[ woos-ee ]

adjective

, wuss·i·er, wuss·i·est.

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 wuss·ies.

1. Also wuss·ie. wuss.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wussy¹

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

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

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 Trump’s way when he was actively trying to prevent Trump 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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Slate

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