limp-wristed

comparative more limp-wristed · superlative most limp-wristed

1. derogatoryslangLimp, weak by nature; lacking strength.
2. derogatoryslangOf a man: having effeminate qualities or characteristics perceived to be homosexual in nature.

   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.

   1998 August 28, Laura Mccall, Donald Yacovone, A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender (Science; 41), NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 331

1. pastsimple past of limp-wrist