weakling

Synonyms for weakling

noun person who has no strength

noun. timid person

noun. elected official waiting to leave office

noun. coward

noun. pansy

1520s, coined by Tyndale from weak as a loan-translation of Luther's Weichling "effeminate man," from German weich "soft" (see weak).

He was a weakling, and had no love of boyish sports; but he excelled in scholarship.

He had known him for a fool, a weakling, a babbler, and a bibber of wine.

Strange that so much should depend upon one man; tragic that the one man was a weakling.

And they would know they were garroting a man, and not a weakling!

Here I am weeping and wailing, she thought, as if I had no brains and as if I were a weakling.

It must be said for George Fleming that at least he was a hardy villain and no weakling.

She struck him across the eyes with full strength, and she was no weakling.

I know you are no coward or weakling, but he could throw you over the wall.

Even a weakling can cripple the strongest man if he once gets that hold.

Such a man as Bobby Bulteel must have been, as George said, a weakling.