Definitions for wimp

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IPA: /wɪmp/

Wimp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in wimp (impw).

Definitions for wimp

noun

1. a weak, ineffectual, timid person.
2. any of a group of weakly interacting elementary particles predicted by various unified field theories, as the W particle and Z-zero particle, that are characterized by relatively large masses.

Verb phrases

1. wimp out, to be or act like a wimp. to show timidity or cowardice; chicken out.

Origin of wimp

1915-20, Americanism; origin uncertain; cf. whimper

Examples for wimp

wimp did what work he could do at home in a secluded study at the top of the house.

On the cover of Newsweek, my colleague Michael Tomasky calls Mitt Romney a wimp.

Another of wimp's grandmother-in-law's delusions was that wimp had married to get her into the family.

Was he so determined not to look like an angry black man that he ended up looking ... kind of like a wimp?

Just by definition, you'd think, any American who plunges into what Teddy Roosevelt called "the arena," is no wimp.

And yet, had not Mrs. wimp let out as much at the Christmas dinner?

Mr. wimp has found no possible clue to such conduct in his papers.

This was wimp's wife's mother's mother, a lady of sweet seventy.

All of us here at NewsBeast knew the word “wimp” would carry a charge and get people to pay attention.

The chapter titles say a lot: “Even More of a wimp than Jimmy Carter,” “Not a Great Listener.”