Crossword clues for weakling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weakling \Weak"ling\, a.
Weak; feeble.
--Sir T. North.
Weakling \Weak"ling\, n. [Weak + -ling.]
A weak or feeble creature.
--Shak. ``All looking on him as a
weakling, which would post to the grave.''
--Fuller.
We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.
--Latimer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, coined by Tyndale from weak (adj.) + -ling as a loan-translation of Luther's Weichling "effeminate man" (from German weich "soft") in I Cor. vi.9, where the Greek is malakoi, from malakos "soft, soft to the touch," "Like the Lat. mollis, metaph. and in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness" ["Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament"].
Wiktionary
a. weak, either physically, morally or mentally n. 1 A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution 2 (context figuratively English) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Weakling was a black metal band from San Francisco. The band never toured and released only one album, Dead as Dreams, recorded in 1998 and released on Tumult Records in 2000.
Usage examples of "weakling".
Now you tell me a gangling weakling bested the deadliest bare-hand fighter Takis has produced.
When Lem claimed that the youngest of their number, a teenager named Kerlew, had been outcast for being a weakling and just downright strange, Farrell objected.
Then they shrieked insults at the Liberator soldiersthey were cowards, spineless weaklings, afraid of a fight.
It is the comparatively weedy weakling, left mateless by polygyny, who objects.
These resented the ascendancy of the women, and grumbled about them or made vulgar jokes, and in their turn the women considered them weaklings or slackers and held them in ill-disguised contempt.
I am finished with that lazyboned, besotted weakling, there will be no bargain.
Sir Turnour is a braw fellow, but three to one is heavy odds, and these three are not weaklings.
Ralfs of various degrees of obesity they snake-danced, past a 300 pound weakling in a leopard-skin bathing suit masquerading as Charles Atlas they shoved, between the guy in the tinfoil robot suit and a girl in long brown flasher raincoat that looked like it had served as a kleenex for a herd of elephants with eyes looked like she bit the heads off live kittens, through an assortment of ninjas, monsters, Martian drag queens and whatever, and down the stairs to the basement.
Weakling wetness seeped from between my closed lids to roll to my cheeks, shaming me by their presence, yet was I unable to stem the flow.
A long life has taught me that a man may seem weak where women and children are concerned and yet be anything but a weakling in the sterner avenues of life.
Eggers is dead, murdered in the basement of the Avers Court address because he was a weakling and a weak link in the chain.
I had foreknown, thou couldst not forebear to save a poor weakling, beset by human wolves.
Son of God prays as a weakling, in order to beseech what He cannot effect.
Yet at that moment such nervous power did I gather from my rage, that I swung him from his feet as though he had been the puniest weakling.
The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.