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pantywaist

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pantywaist/ˈpantɪwɛɪst/

▶noun N. Amer. informal a feeble or effeminate person.

– origin 1930s: extended use of the literal sense ‘child's garment consisting of panties attached to a bodice’.

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