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Someone who apologizes to furniture after walking into it.
means A timid, weak-willed person who shrinks from confrontation or difficulty.
from First clearly appearing in early 20th-century American slang, 'wimp' likely traces back to 'whimper' — the sound of someone too feeble to put up a fight. Some link it to J. Wellington Wimpy, the hamburger-mooching, confrontation-dodging softie from the Popeye comics and cartoons, though that character more plausibly popularized the word than invented it. By the 1960s and 70s it had fully settled into its modern meaning: a person of flinching nerve and no backbone.
- origin theory
- maybe from whimper, unconfirmed but fitting
- popeye villain
- j. wellington wimpy loved burgers, avoided fights
- opposite energy
- confidence without the follow-through to back it