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wimp

Pronunciation: (wimp), [key] Informal.

—n.
a weak, ineffectual, timid person.

—v.
wimp out,
a. to be or act like a wimp.
b. to show timidity or cowardice; chicken out.

WIMP

Pronunciation: (wimp), [key]
—n.
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.

wimmin

wimple