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floppy-wristed

floppy-wristed adjective: making or involving a flopping motion with the wrist(s).

Adjective

floppy-wristed (comparative more floppy-wristed, superlative most floppy-wristed)

  1. Making or involving a flopping motion with the wrist(s).
    • Sarah waved one hand at us in this floppy-wristed way, like she was dismissing us from her royal throne room.2011, Anna Humphrey, Mission (Un)Popular, Disney·Hyperion Books (2011), page 104
  2. (derogatory, usually) Stereotypically gay; flamboyant.
    • The stigma is the problem for those who don't want to come out of the closet, because they'll be labelled as the floppy wristed pansies that everybody thinks they should be.1996 April 29, Michael Gallagher, “Re: samesexsex”, in carleton.general (Usenet)

Forms of floppy-wristed

comparativemore floppy-wristed
superlativemost floppy-wristed

Questions about floppy-wristed

What does floppy-wristed mean?
Floppy-wristed means making or involving a flopping motion with the wrist(s).
What part of speech is floppy-wristed?
Floppy-wristed is an adjective.

Words near floppy-wristed in the dictionary

  1. floppy drive
  2. floppy drives
  3. floppy eyelid syndrome
  4. floppy infant syndrome
  5. floppy trunk syndrome
  6. floppy-wristed
  7. floppydock
  8. floppydocks
  9. floppyful
  10. floppyfuls
  11. flopristin

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