wimp: [20] The first record of the word wimp ‘feeble ineffectual person’ is from as long ago as 1920, but it was not used at all widely until the early 1960s. Its origins have never been satisfactorily explained. It is tempting to link it with J. Wellington Wimpy, a curious little man with a moustache who featured in the Popeye cartoons, but he was not around in the 1920s.
Nor is it altogether plausible that it came from American slang gimp ‘lame or handicapped person’. Perhaps the least unlikely suggestion is that it is short for whimper. No connection with the now obsolete slang wimp ‘woman’ [20] (perhaps an alteration of women) has ever been demonstrated. In the 1980s WIMP was used as an acronym for ‘weakly interacting massive particle’ and for ‘widows/icon/mouse/pointer’, a computer term.
wimp (n.)
1920 (but not attested again until 1960), perhaps a clipped form of whimper (cf whimp, 1540s), perhaps influenced by J. Wellington Wimpy, comparatively unaggressive character in "Popeye" comics.
wimp (v.)
1986, with out (adv.), from wimp (n.). Related: Wimped; wimping.
雙語例句
1. He's such a, snotty - nosed little ` wimp.
他是個高傲而懦弱的人.
來自辭典例句
2. The more she called her husband a wimp, the more timid he became.
她越叫她先生懦夫, 他就越膽小怯懦.
來自辭典例句
3. Stop being a wimp Owl and take my playing like a man!
別膽怯了白梟,認(rèn)真對待我的演奏!
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. If you agree to all her likes, you are a wimp.
如果你完全贊同她的話, 那你真無能.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. They report their work in the current edition of Science.