floppy-wristed

adjective

Making or involving a flopping motion with the wrist(s).

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Meanings

adjectivefloppy-wristed (comparative more floppy-wristed, superlative most floppy-wristed)

comparative more floppy-wristed · superlative most floppy-wristed

  1. Making or involving a flopping motion with the wrist(s).

    Sarah waved one hand at us in this floppy-wristed way, like she was dismissing us from her royal throne room.

    2011, Anna Humphrey, Mission (Un)Popular, Disney·Hyperion Books (2011), page 104
  2. derogatoryusuallyStereotypically gay; flamboyant.

    The stigma is the problem for those who don't want to come out of the closet, because they'll be labelled as the floppy wristed pansies that everybody thinks they should be.

    1996 April 29, Michael Gallagher, “Re: samesexsex”, in carleton.general (Usenet)
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APA

floppy-wristed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floppy-wristed

MLA

“floppy-wristed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floppy-wristed. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “floppy-wristed,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floppy-wristed.

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