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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 170129" data-attributes="member: 373">I'm still bugged about the whole "panty waste"/"panty waist" deal. So are they making fun of someone that pulls their panties to far up  on their waist so as to give them self a wedgey to get all worked up about? You can;t just make insults up like that without them meaning something. TOP DEFINITION<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pantywaist" target="_blank">pantywaist</a>A feminine, limp-wristed <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guy" target="_blank">guy</a> who lacks <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=courage" target="_blank">courage</a>. May or may not be <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gay" target="_blank">gay</a>, but is usually assumed to be.3<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Panty%20Waist" target="_blank">Panty Waist</a>(Noun)-(<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pan" target="_blank">Pan</a> tee wayst)<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=One" target="_blank">One</a> who's manlihood is in question. A <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sally" target="_blank">Sally</a>. A bitch. Of military origin.Okay any of you military guys know where this came from? Pant·y·waist(păn′tē-wāst′)n.1. A child's undergarment consisting of a shirt and pants buttoned together at the waist.2. Slang A boy or man who is considered weak or effeminate.<a href="http://archives.cjr.org/language_corner/sissy_talk.php" target="_blank">http://archives.cjr.org/language_corner/sissy_talk.php</a>That insulting definition of “pantywaist” (sometimes hyphenated as “panty-waist,” sometimes rendered as “panty waist”) first appeared in the 1930s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, about twenty years after the first mention of the garment itself. It’s not a common usage, and, as might be expected for something considered derogatory, it shows up mainly in letters to the editor, editorials, and, now, blogs.David Carr used it on the Media Decoder blog at The New York Times in a discussion of a new book about the Murdoch takeover of The Wall Street Journal: “Again and again, the new owners of The Journal see the newspaper’s critics as left-leaning pantywaists and ‘Columbia Journalism School’ types,” he wrote. (“I chose the word because I was trying to ape the kind of critiques that I read,” he said later.)“Pantywaist” has a tinge of Victorian archaism about it, since not many remember its origin. And it has a tinge of Britishism about it too: One British columnist started calling President Obama “President Pantywaist” last April, and while the nickname hasn’t exactly zoomed to the top of the charts in the U.S., it has been used a number of times. Most slang of that time has joined the Carolina parakeet in extinction (Quick! What’s a “flivver”?), but “pantywaist” has survived, along with “hoosegow,” “gin mill,” and “golddigger.”Regardless, it is an insult, so should be used with care.</blockquote>

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