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Caspar Milquetoast
Definition
Comic-strip character created by Harold Tucker Webster (1885-1952), the caricature of a timid, meek, unassertive, mild-mannered, overly proper, ineffectual man thoroughly dominated by his wife, other men, and essentially everyone else; what is sometimes colloquially referred to today as: pussy-whipped.See also: milquetoast(y).
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