floppy-wristed

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Adjective[edit]

floppy-wristed (comparative more floppy-wristed, superlative most floppy-wristed)

  1. Making or involving a flopping motion with the wrist(s).
    • 2011, Anna Humphrey, Mission (Un)Popular, Disney·Hyperion Books (2011), →ISBN, page 104:
      Sarah waved one hand at us in this floppy-wristed way, like she was dismissing us from her royal throne room.
  2. (of a man, usually derogatory) Stereotypically gay; flamboyant.
    • 1996 April 29, Michael Gallagher, “Re: samesexsex”, in carleton.general[1] (Usenet):
      The stigma is the problem for those who don't want to come out of the closet, because they'll be labelled as the floppy wristed pansies that everybody thinks they should be.