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weaklings

weaklings is the plural of weakling.

Meaning of weakling

Noun

weakling (plural weaklings)

  1. A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.
    • “Mon Dieu!” he soliloquized, “but they are all alike. Cheating, murdering, lying, fighting, and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not deign to possess—money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of weaklings. And yet withal bound down by silly customs that make them slaves to their...1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 17
    Synonyms:
    twerk, twerp
  2. (figuratively) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
    • c.1551, Hugh Latimer, a sermon in Lincolnshire
      We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.

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Questions about weaklings

What is weaklings the plural of?
Weaklings is the plural of weakling.

Words near weaklings in the dictionary

  1. Weakleys
  2. weaklier
  3. weakliest
  4. weakliness
  5. weakling
  6. weaklings
  7. weaklink
  8. weaklinks
  9. weakly
  10. weakly cardinal
  11. weakly contractible

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