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A new word was added to the OED:
Wussy
A. n. Chiefly N. Amer. A weak or ineffectual person; an effeminate man. Cf. WIMP n.2
1981 Washington Post 18 July C2 Kong's a wussy... That wasn't him climbing the Empire State Building; that was a stunt ape. 1994 Face Oct. 163/2 Call me a woosie, but my ribcage is aching from the bass vibrations. 2003 Vanity Fair Mar. 166/1 Those pampered, effete, ungrateful, deodorant-averse European wussies.
B. adj. Weak, ineffectual; effeminate. Cf. WIMPY a.
1985 Washington Post 17 Jan. D7 They [sc. New Zealanders] really don't have any sense of what American football is. They think it's a wussy sport because you put on helmets and pads. They say real men play rugby. 1992 Time 13 Jan. 7/2 Grand Canyon goes all weird and wussy at the end, but for the first hour or so it addresses real issues and feelings. 1995 Smash Hits Suppl. 29 Mar. 2/3 Having cuddly toys makes you look wussy. 2001 C. GLAZEBROOK Madolescents 255 She stands there frowning a bit, then takes the form to two other wussy bank types.
wussiness n.
1989 Chicago Tribune 10 Dec. XIV. 3 The *wussiness has given us ‘Some Freaks’. Mamet knows that and often pokes fun at himself. 2004 Newcastle Herald (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Apr. 18 There is no room for wussiness here. Heavyweights in silk loincloths colliding like whales are an awesome sight indeed.
Wussy
A. n. Chiefly N. Amer. A weak or ineffectual person; an effeminate man. Cf. WIMP n.2
1981 Washington Post 18 July C2 Kong's a wussy... That wasn't him climbing the Empire State Building; that was a stunt ape. 1994 Face Oct. 163/2 Call me a woosie, but my ribcage is aching from the bass vibrations. 2003 Vanity Fair Mar. 166/1 Those pampered, effete, ungrateful, deodorant-averse European wussies.
B. adj. Weak, ineffectual; effeminate. Cf. WIMPY a.
1985 Washington Post 17 Jan. D7 They [sc. New Zealanders] really don't have any sense of what American football is. They think it's a wussy sport because you put on helmets and pads. They say real men play rugby. 1992 Time 13 Jan. 7/2 Grand Canyon goes all weird and wussy at the end, but for the first hour or so it addresses real issues and feelings. 1995 Smash Hits Suppl. 29 Mar. 2/3 Having cuddly toys makes you look wussy. 2001 C. GLAZEBROOK Madolescents 255 She stands there frowning a bit, then takes the form to two other wussy bank types.
wussiness n.
1989 Chicago Tribune 10 Dec. XIV. 3 The *wussiness has given us ‘Some Freaks’. Mamet knows that and often pokes fun at himself. 2004 Newcastle Herald (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Apr. 18 There is no room for wussiness here. Heavyweights in silk loincloths colliding like whales are an awesome sight indeed.