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wimp

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Noun

  1. Someone who lacks confidence or courage, is weak, ineffectual, irresolute and wishy-washy.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of WIMP.
  3. Acronym of window, icon, menu, pointer, a graphical interface paradigm.
  4. Acronym of window-icon-mouse program.

Verb

  1. To behave submissively.
  2. To make (something) weak or wimpy.

Adjective

  1. Weak, wimpy.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Windows, Internet Information Services, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Perl/Python.

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