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wimpish
adj 1: weak and ineffectual [syn: {wimpish}, {wimpy}]

English Dictionary: Winnipeg	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
win back v recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost; "We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company"; "He got back his son from the kidnappers" Synonym(s): win back, get back
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wine bucket n a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine [syn: {wine bucket}, wine cooler]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Winnebago n a member of the Siouan-speaking people formerly living in eastern Wisconsin south of Green Bay; ally of the Menomini and enemy of the Fox and Sauk people the Siouan language spoken by the Winnebago
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Winnipeg n the capital and largest city of Manitoba; located in southern Manitoba; known for severe winters a lake in southern Canada in Manitoba Synonym(s): Winnipeg, Lake Winnipeg
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Wine bag}, a wine skin. {Wine biscuit}, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine. {Wine cask}, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine. {Wine cellar}, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine. {Wine cooler}, a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing ice.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Wine bag}, a wine skin. {Wine biscuit}, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine. {Wine cask}, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine. {Wine cellar}, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine. {Wine cooler}, a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing ice.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Winnebagoes \Win`ne*ba"goes\, n.; sing. {Winnebago}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Winnebagoes \Win`ne*ba"goes\, n.; sing. {Winnebago}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wampsville, NY (village, FIPS 78113) Location: 43.07771 N, 75.70956 W Population (1990): 501 (190 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Winnebago, IL (village, FIPS 82491) Location: 42.26795 N, 89.24045 W Population (1990): 1840 (661 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61088 Winnebago, MN (city, FIPS 70924) Location: 43.76604 N, 94.16827 W Population (1990): 1565 (737 housing units) Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56098 Winnebago, NE (village, FIPS 53275) Location: 42.23717 N, 96.47295 W Population (1990): 705 (251 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68071
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Winnebago County, IA (county, FIPS 189) Location: 43.37835 N, 93.72505 W Population (1990): 12122 (5030 housing units) Area: 1037.3 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water) Winnebago County, IL (county, FIPS 201) Location: 42.33177 N, 89.16060 W Population (1990): 252913 (101666 housing units) Area: 1330.8 sq km (land), 14.2 sq km (water) Winnebago County, WI (county, FIPS 139) Location: 44.06227 N, 88.64346 W Population (1990): 140320 (56123 housing units) Area: 1136.1 sq km (land), 362.9 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
win big vi. To experience serendipity. "I went shopping and won big; there was a 2-for-1 sale." See {big win}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
womb box n. 1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment. 2. [proposed] A variety of hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior padding and/or shaped carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix; mundanely called a `flight case'. Used for delicate test equipment, electronics, and musical instruments.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
wumpus /wuhm'p*s/ n. The central monster (and, in many versions, the name) of a famous family of very early computer games called "Hunt The Wumpus'. The original was invented in 1970 (several years before {ADVENT}) by Gregory Yob. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and Mo"bius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five `crooked arrows'; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus (which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location (later versions added `anaerobic termites' that ate arrows, bat migrations, and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured {ADVENT} and {Zork} and was directly ancestral to the latter (Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). A C emulation of the original Basic game is available at the Retrocomputing Museum, `http://www.ccil.org/retro'.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
womb box 1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment. 2. [proposed] A variety of hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior padding and/or shaped carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix; mundanely called a "flight case". Used for delicate test equipment, electronics, and musical instruments. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Wumpus {Hunt the Wumpus}