whiny-ass titty baby

English

Etymology

Popularized in the 2000s on political blogs.

Noun

whiny-ass titty baby (plural whiny-ass titty babies)

(slang, derogatory, vulgar) Someone who is childish and prone to taking offense.
- 2006 April, Jason Zengerle, “The challenge to Joe Lieberman.”, in The New Republic‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 May 2017:
  Let the record show that Ned Lamont does not consider Joe Lieberman a whiny-ass titty baby. Nor does he believe that Connecticut's junior senator is a douchebag, an ass clown, or any of the other nasty names liberal bloggers have called Lieberman […] .
- 2006 June, Matthew Yglesias, “Type No Evil, Read No Evil”, in The American Prospect‎^[2], CBS News, retrieved 20 April 2024:
  The characteristic blogofascist mode of attack is name-calling, with the insults often following previously established conventions. "Wanker" is a particularly common weapon, although "whiny-ass titty baby" ("WATB") is widely considered to be more deadly.
- 2009 September, “The Balloon Juice Dictionary”, in The Daily Dish‎^[3] (blog), The Atlantic, archived from the original on 7 April 2011:
  WATB Whiny-Ass Titty Baby, or Babies. Originally appended to the ombudspersons of the Washington Post, possibly by Sadly, No!, for complaining that unpaid bloggers were making the ombudspersons’ highly-compensated jobs too hard.
- 2015, Mark Doten, The Infernal, A Novel:
  Not my fault if Jay couldn't take it all in, the things I was saying, if processing all that made him make me want to whip out the world's smallest violin, better call the WWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHBU LANCE, poor Jay, the lame, the jerkwater, whiny-ass titty baby ...