faintling

Etymology

From faint + -ling.

faintling means timorous; feeble-minded. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

adj

Timorous; feeble-minded.

noun

One who is faint, feeble, or weak.“And for a weak and peevish youth, a faintling, A boy of a girl's temper; one who shrinks Trembling and crouching at a look, a word, A lifted ringer, like a beaten hound.”