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The 98-pound mascot for everyone who got sand kicked in their face.
means A person, animal, or thing notably lacking in physical or moral strength.
from From the German diminutive ending '-ling' grafted onto 'weak' in the 1500s, the same suffix that shrinks a duck into a duckling.
Comic fameStarred in Charles Atlas bodybuilding ads since the 1940s.
Suffix cousinsShares '-ling' with underling, hireling, and darling.
Moral senseOften means spineless, not just physically feeble.