weakling
pronunciation
How to pronounce weakling in British English:
UK [ˈwi:klɪŋ]
How to pronounce weakling in American English:
US [ˈwiklɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- a person who is physically weak and ineffectual
Word Origin
- weakling (n.)
- 1520s, coined by Tyndale from weak (adj.) + -ling as a loan-translation of Luther's Weichling "effeminate man" (from German weich "soft") in I Cor. vi.9, where the Greek is malakoi, from malakos "soft, soft to the touch," "Like the Lat. mollis, metaph. and in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness" ["Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament"].
Example
- 1. This weakling did not even play at hunting .
- 2. Think that weakling can hurt me ?
- 3. Really , wow , I never knew you were such a weakling .
- 4. A picture emerges of a moral weakling with an iq of about 70 .
- 5. Don 't stop you weakling !