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A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.
- “Mon Dieu!” he soliloquized, “but they are all alike. Cheating, murdering, lying, fighting, and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not deign to possess—money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of weaklings. And yet withal
- 2
A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.figuratively
- c.1551, Hugh Latimer, a sermon in Lincolnshire We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.
syn. pushover · sissy · weenie
ant. strongling