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Wimp vs Simp - What's the difference?

wimp | simp |

As nouns the difference between wimp and simp

is that wimp is someone who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy while simp is a simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.

As a verb wimp

is to behave submissively, inde.

wimp

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative, slang) someone who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

    • Derived terms

    * wimpy * wimp out

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To behave submissively, inde.
  • *
  • To render wimpy.
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    simp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.
  • *1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 59:
  • *:Pimps and simps would fall in from here and there and everywhere, grabbing thousand-dollar advances from the madames and leaving their lady friends in pawn.
  • * 1981 , Philip K. Dick, Valis , ISBN 0553205943, p. 105
    • Groggy from my nap I turn on the TV and try to watch.... Morons and simps appear in the screen, drool like pinheads and waterheads....

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