Definition of "wuss" []

• Slang A person regarded as weak or timid and especially as unmanly: "Cats are for wusses, dog men say” ( Laura Blumenfeld). (noun)

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• "Calling John Murtha a wuss is ‘way off the reservation, and Murtha will (I trust) stick John MaCain back in the prison cell of failed ideas."
• "He can't stand up to Cheney himself, so Pfeiffer has to step in .... wuss."
• "I think you are misjudging the public. the only folks that are seeing Obama as a wuss are his present supporters, not the demographic he is reaching for."