wimpn.¹

Brit.

/wɪmp/, U.S.

/wɪmp/

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an abbreviated corruption of women.

slang.

A woman or girl. ‘Wimp was also used as a verb at Oxford c1917, e.g. to go wimping’ (M. Marples, University Slang (1950), p. 98).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun]

daughterOE

maidenOE

young womanOE

mayc1175

burdc1225

maidc1275

wenchc1290

file1303

virginc1330

girla1375

damselc1380

young ladya1393

jilla1425

juvenclec1430

young person1438

domicellea1464

quean1488

trull1525

pulleta1533

Tib1533

kittyc1560

dell1567

gillian1573

nymph1584

winklota1586

frotion1587

yuffrouw1589

pigeon1592

tit1599

nannicock1600

muggle1608

gixy1611

infanta1611

dilla1627

tittiea1628

whimsy1631

ladykin1632

stammel1639

moggie1648

zitellaa1660

baggagea1668

miss1668

baby1684

burdie1718

demoiselle1720

queanie?1800

intombi1809

muchacha1811

jilt1816

titter1819

ragazza1827

gouge1828

craft1829

meisie1838

sheila1839

sixteenc1840

chica1843

femme1846

muffin1854

gel1857

quail1859

kitten1870

bud1880

fräulein1883

sub-debutante1887

sweet-and-twenty1887

flapper1888

jelly1889

queen1894

chick1899

pusher1902

bit of fluff1903

chicklet1905

twist and twirl1905

twist1906

head1913

sub-deb1916

tabby1916

mouse1917

tittie1918

chickie1919

wren1920

bim1922

nifty1923

quiff1923

wimp1923

bride1924

job1927

junior miss1927

hag1932

tab1932

sort1933

palone1934

brush1941

knitting1943

teenybopper1966

weeny-bopper1972

Valley Girl1982

1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 338 Wimp, femme, fille, donzelle.

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 959/1 Wimp, a (young) woman, a girl: from ca. 1920.

1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 190 St. Bees..used wimp (a corruption of women) and the Arabic bint of women in general, while skinny liz was applied, almost as a nickname, to any elderly woman.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wimpn.²

Brit.

/wɪmp/, U.S.

/wɪmp/

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < whimper n. (compare English dialect wimp (of a dog) to whine).

slang (originally U.S.).

A feeble or ineffectual person; one who is spineless or ‘wet’. (Used only as a term of abuse or contempt.)

ΚΠ

1920 G. Ade Hand-made Fables 97 Next day he sought out the dejected Wimp.

1964 Amer. Speech 39 119 A baff is ‘a person who does silly things deliberately’; but wimp is still mysterious and undefined in my notes.

1966 Current Slang Winter 8 Wimp, a backward person... He's a real wimp on a date.

1970 N.Y. Mag. 16 Nov. 10/2 That Goodell, he's nothing but a wimp. And this Ottinger, it got so I couldn't stand the sight of him.

1976 New Musical Express 31 July 8/2 Although he's best known here as a fairly muscular MOR wimp,..he has a big reputation as a prodigiously talented multi-media whizz in the States.

1979 T. Gifford Hollywood Gothic (1980) xxii. 220 Solly Roth and his wimp of a son..what a wet bunch that family was.

1981 P. Theroux Mosquito Coast vi. 48 I can afford to be robbed... But what about the poor wimps who can't afford it?

1984 Sunday Tel. 30 Dec. 15/6 In daily life Ronnie Lee is a wimp. Put him in a balaclava and he thinks he's a he-man.

1985 She July 140/2 Masseur! Huh! He sounds a right little wimp.

Draft additions 1993

2. attributive passing into adj.: = wimpish adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective]

feeblec1400

colourlessc1425

flagging1540

pithless1555

blanched1570

toothless1592

unpointed1604

unsinewed1604

jejune1615

low-pitched1622

unsinewy?1623

macilent1624

flaccid1647

insinewy1653

unsubstanceda1658

incogent1667

pointless1673

languida1677

enervatea1704

unaccentuated1716

unnervate1725

lank1729

unforcible1754

nerveless1763

weak1771

flabby1793

slip-slop1814

tinkling1822

exsanguinea1834

twittery1840

slipshod1842

under-coloured1870

shaftless1881

thin1890

unaccented1893

wimpish1925

wimp1979

1979 Washington Post 28 Dec. 31/3 New Wave to Nouveau Rave, folk rock to red-light rock and shoo-bop to wimp rock, ‘Le Freak’ was the quintessential thoughtless, summertime-and-the-livin'-is-easy hot production single.

1982 New Musical Express 30 Oct. 26/3 The weak wimp American.

1984 New Yorker 26 Mar. 51/3 Gordy had a..desire for a..sweatshirt bearing the motto ‘Niceness is Down for the Count’, but some wimp clerk..refused to print it.

1991 Wine & Spirits Apr. 46/2 The total aroma profile of the full malolactic wine..is huge. This is no wimp wine. It's Paul Bunyan, overalls and all.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

WIMPn.³

Brit.

/wɪmp/, U.S.

/wɪmp/

Forms: Wimp, wimp; WIMPS

Etymology: Acronym < windows, icons, mouse and a fourth word variously given: see quots.

Computing. Also .

A set of software features and hardware devices (such as windows, icons, mice, pull-down menus, etc.) that are designed to simplify or demystify computing operations for the user. Frequently attributive and in other combinations.

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > [noun] > user interface

user interface1967

command line1971

graphic user interface1981

CLI1982

command line interface1983

WIMP1984

UI1990

1984 Daily Tel. 9 July 11/3 WIMP is an acronym for Windowing Icon Mouse Products; in short the state-of-the-art in software technology.

1984 Daily Tel. 9 July 11/5 What Silicon Office doesn't have is WIMPs; since all the operations can be controlled with the same 18 commands, it doesn't need them.

1985 Pract. Computing May 116 Wimps in the Accounts Department. Chris Bidmead looks at how the coming generation of window, icon and mouse programs are set to change the face of accounting software.

1985 Which Computer? July 35/1 An intriguing WIMPS (Windows, Icons, Mouse and Pointer-based System) implementation that does a creditable job of imitating the workings of the Apple Macintosh.

1986 Internat. Conf. on Speech Input/Output (IEE Conf. Ser. CCLVIII) 154/1 This paper..summarizes the design for an interface which is intended to make Wimp-type programs accessible to visually disabled users.

1987 Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 24/4 Another name is WIMP. This is an acronym for Windows, Icons and Mouse Program…The windows in WIMP refer to ability to open up separate areas on the screen.

1987 Guardian 18 June 15/7 The so-called Wimp interface (windows, icons, mice, pull-down menus) available on the Macintosh and other computers, has changed all that.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

WIMPn.⁴

Brit.

/wɪmp/, U.S.

/wɪmp/

Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English weakly interacting massive particle.

Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of weakly interacting massive particle (compare quot. 1985), punningly after wimp n.²

Particle Physics.

Any of several hypothetical subatomic particles which have a large mass but interact only through the weak force and gravity, postulated as the main constituents of dark matter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [noun] > hypothetical particle > constituent of dark matter

WIMP1985

1985 Nucl. Physics B. 253 375 Considerations of the age and density of, as well as the evolution of structure in, the universe lead to constraints on the masses and lifetimes of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).

1989 New Scientist 15 Apr. 41/1 Theorists expect WIMPs to have a mass in the same range as atomic nuclei.

1997 P. Coles & G. F. R. Ellis Is Universe Open or Closed? ii. 45 When a WIMP collides with an atomic nucleus, there is expected to be a recoil.

2008 Nature 20 Nov. 330/1 If it turns out that the ATIC detection really is due to an elusive WIMP about 600 times the mass of a proton, it will go to show just how truly insignificant we are.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wimpv.

Brit.

/wɪmp/, U.S.

/wɪmp/

Etymology: < wimp n.²

North American slang.

intransitive. With out: to fail to act or to avoid an undertaking, through weakness of character or intention; to ‘chicken out’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > be cowardly or show signs of cowardice [verb (intransitive)] > shirk or skulk

skulk1626

shirk1778

to funk out1859

duff1883

to chicken out1931

fink1966

wimp1981

cowardize2003

1981 Washington Post 22 Nov. g7/1 She wondered if she had ‘wimped out’ when she tried ineffectually to convert Dohrn to her brand of radical feminism.

1986 Pony Sept. 13/3 I was going to go..but wimped out at the last minute.

1988 People 18 Apr. 57/3 Whenever I challenged her with a new task, she'd wimp out on me and cry.

1990 New Eng. Monthly Mar. 47/2 One of the women suggested the night had already been very full and rewarding and she wasn't sure she needed to continue it. ‘Hey, are you wimping out?’ Patti asked.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1923

n.²1920

n.³1984

n.⁴1985

v.1981

单词	wimp
释义	wimpn.¹ Brit. /wɪmp/, U.S. /wɪmp/ Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an abbreviated corruption of women. slang. A woman or girl. ‘Wimp was also used as a verb at Oxford c1917, e.g. to go wimping’ (M. Marples, University Slang (1950), p. 98). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] daughterOE maidenOE young womanOE mayc1175 burdc1225 maidc1275 wenchc1290 file1303 virginc1330 girla1375 damselc1380 young ladya1393 jilla1425 juvenclec1430 young person1438 domicellea1464 quean1488 trull1525 pulleta1533 Tib1533 kittyc1560 dell1567 gillian1573 nymph1584 winklota1586 frotion1587 yuffrouw1589 pigeon1592 tit1599 nannicock1600 muggle1608 gixy1611 infanta1611 dilla1627 tittiea1628 whimsy1631 ladykin1632 stammel1639 moggie1648 zitellaa1660 baggagea1668 miss1668 baby1684 burdie1718 demoiselle1720 queanie?1800 intombi1809 muchacha1811 jilt1816 titter1819 ragazza1827 gouge1828 craft1829 meisie1838 sheila1839 sixteenc1840 chica1843 femme1846 muffin1854 gel1857 quail1859 kitten1870 bud1880 fräulein1883 sub-debutante1887 sweet-and-twenty1887 flapper1888 jelly1889 queen1894 chick1899 pusher1902 bit of fluff1903 chicklet1905 twist and twirl1905 twist1906 head1913 sub-deb1916 tabby1916 mouse1917 tittie1918 chickie1919 wren1920 bim1922 nifty1923 quiff1923 wimp1923 bride1924 job1927 junior miss1927 hag1932 tab1932 sort1933 palone1934 brush1941 knitting1943 teenybopper1966 weeny-bopper1972 Valley Girl1982 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 338 Wimp, femme, fille, donzelle. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 959/1 Wimp, a (young) woman, a girl: from ca. 1920. 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 190 St. Bees..used wimp (a corruption of women) and the Arabic bint of women in general, while skinny liz was applied, almost as a nickname, to any elderly woman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wimpn.² Brit. /wɪmp/, U.S. /wɪmp/ Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < whimper n. (compare English dialect wimp (of a dog) to whine). slang (originally U.S.). A feeble or ineffectual person; one who is spineless or ‘wet’. (Used only as a term of abuse or contempt.) ΚΠ 1920 G. Ade Hand-made Fables 97 Next day he sought out the dejected Wimp. 1964 Amer. Speech 39 119 A baff is ‘a person who does silly things deliberately’; but wimp is still mysterious and undefined in my notes. 1966 Current Slang Winter 8 Wimp, a backward person... He's a real wimp on a date. 1970 N.Y. Mag. 16 Nov. 10/2 That Goodell, he's nothing but a wimp. And this Ottinger, it got so I couldn't stand the sight of him. 1976 New Musical Express 31 July 8/2 Although he's best known here as a fairly muscular MOR wimp,..he has a big reputation as a prodigiously talented multi-media whizz in the States. 1979 T. Gifford Hollywood Gothic (1980) xxii. 220 Solly Roth and his wimp of a son..what a wet bunch that family was. 1981 P. Theroux Mosquito Coast vi. 48 I can afford to be robbed... But what about the poor wimps who can't afford it? 1984 Sunday Tel. 30 Dec. 15/6 In daily life Ronnie Lee is a wimp. Put him in a balaclava and he thinks he's a he-man. 1985 She July 140/2 Masseur! Huh! He sounds a right little wimp. Draft additions 1993 2. attributive passing into adj.: = wimpish adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] feeblec1400 colourlessc1425 flagging1540 pithless1555 blanched1570 toothless1592 unpointed1604 unsinewed1604 jejune1615 low-pitched1622 unsinewy?1623 macilent1624 flaccid1647 insinewy1653 unsubstanceda1658 incogent1667 pointless1673 languida1677 enervatea1704 unaccentuated1716 unnervate1725 lank1729 unforcible1754 nerveless1763 weak1771 flabby1793 slip-slop1814 tinkling1822 exsanguinea1834 twittery1840 slipshod1842 under-coloured1870 shaftless1881 thin1890 unaccented1893 wimpish1925 wimp1979 1979 Washington Post 28 Dec. 31/3 New Wave to Nouveau Rave, folk rock to red-light rock and shoo-bop to wimp rock, ‘Le Freak’ was the quintessential thoughtless, summertime-and-the-livin'-is-easy hot production single. 1982 New Musical Express 30 Oct. 26/3 The weak wimp American. 1984 New Yorker 26 Mar. 51/3 Gordy had a..desire for a..sweatshirt bearing the motto ‘Niceness is Down for the Count’, but some wimp clerk..refused to print it. 1991 Wine & Spirits Apr. 46/2 The total aroma profile of the full malolactic wine..is huge. This is no wimp wine. It's Paul Bunyan, overalls and all. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). WIMPn.³ Brit. /wɪmp/, U.S. /wɪmp/ Forms: Wimp, wimp; WIMPS Etymology: Acronym < windows, icons, mouse and a fourth word variously given: see quots. Computing. Also . A set of software features and hardware devices (such as windows, icons, mice, pull-down menus, etc.) that are designed to simplify or demystify computing operations for the user. Frequently attributive and in other combinations. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > [noun] > user interface user interface1967 command line1971 graphic user interface1981 CLI1982 command line interface1983 WIMP1984 UI1990 1984 Daily Tel. 9 July 11/3 WIMP is an acronym for Windowing Icon Mouse Products; in short the state-of-the-art in software technology. 1984 Daily Tel. 9 July 11/5 What Silicon Office doesn't have is WIMPs; since all the operations can be controlled with the same 18 commands, it doesn't need them. 1985 Pract. Computing May 116 Wimps in the Accounts Department. Chris Bidmead looks at how the coming generation of window, icon and mouse programs are set to change the face of accounting software. 1985 Which Computer? July 35/1 An intriguing WIMPS (Windows, Icons, Mouse and Pointer-based System) implementation that does a creditable job of imitating the workings of the Apple Macintosh. 1986 Internat. Conf. on Speech Input/Output (IEE Conf. Ser. CCLVIII) 154/1 This paper..summarizes the design for an interface which is intended to make Wimp-type programs accessible to visually disabled users. 1987 Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 24/4 Another name is WIMP. This is an acronym for Windows, Icons and Mouse Program…The windows in WIMP refer to ability to open up separate areas on the screen. 1987 Guardian 18 June 15/7 The so-called Wimp interface (windows, icons, mice, pull-down menus) available on the Macintosh and other computers, has changed all that. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021). WIMPn.⁴ Brit. /wɪmp/, U.S. /wɪmp/ Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English weakly interacting massive particle. Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of weakly interacting massive particle (compare quot. 1985), punningly after wimp n.² Particle Physics. Any of several hypothetical subatomic particles which have a large mass but interact only through the weak force and gravity, postulated as the main constituents of dark matter. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [noun] > hypothetical particle > constituent of dark matter WIMP1985 1985 Nucl. Physics B. 253 375 Considerations of the age and density of, as well as the evolution of structure in, the universe lead to constraints on the masses and lifetimes of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). 1989 New Scientist 15 Apr. 41/1 Theorists expect WIMPs to have a mass in the same range as atomic nuclei. 1997 P. Coles & G. F. R. Ellis Is Universe Open or Closed? ii. 45 When a WIMP collides with an atomic nucleus, there is expected to be a recoil. 2008 Nature 20 Nov. 330/1 If it turns out that the ATIC detection really is due to an elusive WIMP about 600 times the mass of a proton, it will go to show just how truly insignificant we are. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wimpv. Brit. /wɪmp/, U.S. /wɪmp/ Etymology: < wimp n.² North American slang. intransitive. With out: to fail to act or to avoid an undertaking, through weakness of character or intention; to ‘chicken out’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > be cowardly or show signs of cowardice [verb (intransitive)] > shirk or skulk skulk1626 shirk1778 to funk out1859 duff1883 to chicken out1931 fink1966 wimp1981 cowardize2003 1981 Washington Post 22 Nov. g7/1 She wondered if she had ‘wimped out’ when she tried ineffectually to convert Dohrn to her brand of radical feminism. 1986 Pony Sept. 13/3 I was going to go..but wimped out at the last minute. 1988 People 18 Apr. 57/3 Whenever I challenged her with a new task, she'd wimp out on me and cry. 1990 New Eng. Monthly Mar. 47/2 One of the women suggested the night had already been very full and rewarding and she wasn't sure she needed to continue it. ‘Hey, are you wimping out?’ Patti asked. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1923n.²1920n.³1984n.⁴1985v.1981
随便看	under the wind under the wing of under the wire under the word of under the yard under the yoke under them all under these circumstances under thon under thumb under tillage under trust under trusteeship under trysting under umber for under umber of under value under veil under wages under walk under water under way under weed under weigh under wing

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wimpn.2

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WIMPn.4

wimpv.

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