milquetoast

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Milquetoast
    n 1: a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive [syn:
         {sissy}, {pantywaist}, {pansy}, {milksop}, {Milquetoast}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Milquetoast \Milquetoast\ n. [From Caspar Milquetoast, a
   character in a cartoon strip by H. T. Webster, The Timid Soul
   (1935).]
   a timid, unassertive man or boy fearful of confrontation and
   easily manipulated and dominated.

   Syn: sissy, pantywaist, pansy, milksop.
        [WordNet 1.5]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "Milquetoast":
      baby, big baby, chicken, chicken liver, coward, crybaby, doormat,
      dull tool, fence-sitter, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker,
      gutless wonder, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, lily liver,
      meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, mouse, mugwump, namby-pamby,
      nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack,
      scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, sissy, softling, softy, sop, waverer,
      weak sister, weakling, white feather, white liver, wobbler
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