weakkneed

[week-need]

weak-kneed

[week-need]
adjective
yielding readily to opposition, pressure, intimidation, etc.

Origin:
1860–65

weak-kneed·ly, adverb
weak-kneed·ness, noun
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Weakkneed is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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