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Apr 28, 2011
This week's themeWords related to clothing This week's words flathat turncoat shirty pantywaist bootstrap Many ways to read AWAD o Email o Web o Twitter o RSS feed o On your own website 
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PRONUNCIATION:
(PAN-tee-wayst)
MEANING:
noun: A weak or effeminate man.adjective: Weak; cowardly; effeminate. ETYMOLOGY:
A pantywaist was formerly a child's undergarment in which a shirt and
pants were buttoned together at the waist. Earliest documented use: 1910.
USAGE:
"The question on many people's minds: Will the genteel Mr. Creel, more
comfortable buried in legal briefs than in the trenches of hand-to-throat
political combat, be able to respond in kind? He doesn't see himself as
a political pantywaist."Peter Fritsch and Jose de Cordoba; Would You Fall into Line for This Man?; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Jan 11, 2001. See more usage examples of pantywaist in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
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