limp-wristed

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limp-wristed (comparative more limp-wristed, superlative most limp-wristed)

1. (slang, derogatory) Weak by nature; lacking strength.
2. (slang, derogatory) Of a man: having effeminate qualities or characteristics perceived to be homosexual in nature.
   • 1998 August, Laura Mccall, Donald Yacovone, A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender (Science; 41)‎, NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 331:

     Given the doubts about manhood in the postwar years, a rough sport like football helped to establish a hierarchy of competing masculinities that favored the sturdy athlete over his limp-wristed counterpart, the heterosexual linebacker over the homosexual fop.

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limp-wristed

1. simple past of limp-wrist