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# wimp

«wimp» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who is seen as weak, scared or not brave** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wimp, wimps); verb (wimp out, wimps out, wimped out, wimping out); adjective wimpy

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, unkind) A wimp is a person who is seen as weak, scared or not brave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wimp/#m1)

2) (informal) To wimp out is to decide not to do something because you are scared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wimp/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday playground slang and stories, children may call someone a wimp for being afraid of a ride or a spider; it can be teasing or bullying. In lessons about kindness, calling names hurts. Phrases: don't be a wimp, wimp out of, a bit of a wimp.

### examples

- Don't be a wimp, the water isn't that cold! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wimp/#x1)
- I wimped out of going on the big roller coaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wimp/#x2)
- He's not a wimp; he's just careful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wimp/#x3)
- My brother is a wimp about spiders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wimp/#x4)
- Calling someone a wimp can hurt their feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wimp/#x5)
- She almost wimped out, but then she jumped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wimp/#x6)

### note

Informal and a bit rude; do not use it in formal writing or to hurt someone. Similar slang: chicken, scaredy-cat, wuss (rude). Being careful is not the same as being a wimp. Past: wimped out.

### In the corpora

- [Sam won't climb the fence into the building site, so Jake calls him a wimp.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wimp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wimp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.