Citations:floppy-wristed

Adjective: "making or involving a flopping motion with the wrist(s)"

 * 1949 — David Stanley, A Treasury of Golf Humor, Lantern Press (1949), page 52:
 * Then he took a floppy-wristed swing at it, and to everybody's unbelieving astonishment, it went straight down the middle to the two-hundred-yard marker.
 * 1970 — Ed Rumill, "Oriiole runaway", Christian Science Monitor, 15 October 1970:
 * Then one day I was throwing on the sidelines to Andy Etchebarren and I threw him a floppy-wristed half curve.
 * 1977 — T. C. Longwood, "Tennis Tips", Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 1977:
 * Many weekend players make a floppy-wristed stroke and lose both power and control.
 * 1979 — "Racket Sports Compatible", Reading Eagle, 29 April 1979:
 * As with so many of the issues that divide humankind, reason is overruled by fear — in this case the phobia that indulgence in floppy-wristed racquetball, squash, etc., will harm one's straight and sturdy tennis stroke.
 * 1995 — Michael Bishop, Brittle Innings, Bantam Books (1995), ISBN 9780553569438, page 221:
 * Well, eventually'd come, and Kizzy dismissed my head shakes with a floppy-wristed wave.
 * 1996 — Susan Isaacs, Lily White, HarperCollins (1996), ISBN 9780060176075, page 99:
 * There was a little Taylor brother, too young to go to school, who always waved at whoever he saw, flapping his hand back and forth in a floppy-wristed frenzy.
 * 1998 — Daniel McCaig, Nop's Hope, The Lyons Press (1998), ISBN 9781558215740:
 * Didn't keep his father from sticking a hand out the window and giving the deputy a floppy-wristed wave.
 * 2003 — Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, Random House (2004), ISBN 0812973011, pages 69-70:
 * When people by the roadside called out, "Blan! Blan!" he would call back, "Hi!" and grin and make floppy-wristed waves.
 * 2007 — Derek Pringle, "Chanderpaul reigns supreme again", The Telegraph, 5 July 2007:
 * Thereafter he scored freely, playing some wonderful floppy-wristed shots through and over the on-side field.
 * 2009 — Trevor Byrne, Ghosts and Lightning, Anchor Books (2009), ISBN 9781423154587, page 192:
 * He makes a floppy-wristed gesture and I look down at me new runners. Actually, now that these little bastards mention it, they're quite sparkly and vaguely effeminate.
 * 2011 — Anna Humphrey, Mission (Un)Popular, Disney&#183;Hyperion Books (2011), ISBN 9781423154587, page 104:
 * Sarah waved one hand at us in this floppy-wristed way, like she was dismissing us from her royal throne room.

Adjective: "(of a man, usually derogatory) stereotypically gay; flamboyant"

 * 2006 — Ben Trovato, Hits and Missives: The Worst of Ben Trovato, Jacana Media (2006), ISBN 1770093079, page 11:
 * And avoid the sodomites! I don't care what they say about you and Jani Allen. At least it proves that you are not a floppy-wristed nancy boy.
 * 2006 — Karman Kregloe, "Gay Driver Laps Stereotypes in Talladega Nights", AfterElton, 4 August 2006:
 * After all, there's a long cinematic history of floppy-wristed gay bad guys being ridiculed, assaulted or worse.
 * 2008 — Matt Akersten, "Time to party like it's 2009!", GayNZ.com, 26 December 2008:
 * The doors at Purple bar (upstairs, cnr K' Road & Pitt St) open at 10pm for Sohomo's New Years Eve Party, featuring their resident floppy-wristed, undie-baring, disco-pig dollface DJ Babes! Babes! Babes!,
 * 2008 — Matt Akersten, "Time to party like it's 2009!", GayNZ.com, 26 December 2008:
 * The doors at Purple bar (upstairs, cnr K' Road & Pitt St) open at 10pm for Sohomo's New Years Eve Party, featuring their resident floppy-wristed, undie-baring, disco-pig dollface DJ Babes! Babes! Babes!,