The word `Weichei` is the "mother" of all decending `Weicheiwörter`. A couple of years ago, there was quite some hype about these words and people came up with more and more synonyms for Weichei, as [this textfile][1] shows. I guess you have expressions like that in other languages as well, but 3000 is really impressive, even though many of them are really far-fetched... ---------- Ergänzung: Obiger Link funktioniert nicht mehr, [hier][2] ist etwas vergleichbares, sogar mit doppelt so vielen Begriffen. [1]: http://www.weichei.de/docs/weiche_synonyme.txt [2]: http://www.weichei.info/