Still, primarily, the mollycoddle is a critic, not a man of action.
But to the mollycoddle she apportions dyspepsia and black bile.
The Red-blood joins societies; the mollycoddle is a non-joiner.
The mollycoddle engenders ideas, and the Red-blood exploits them.
The mollycoddle also despises the Red-blood, but he cannot do without him.
Nations, like men, may be classified roughly as Red-blood and mollycoddle.
To be born a mollycoddle in America is to be born to a hard fate.
Then comes the mollycoddle, divining all, possessing and offering all.
Hence the fact, noted by a cynic, that it is the mollycoddle who cuckolds the Red-blood.
He despises her because of the mollycoddle he divines in her.
also molly-coddle, 1870, from a noun (1833) meaning "one who coddles himself," from Molly (pet name formation from Mary), which had been used contemptuously since 1754 for "a milksop, an effeminate man," + coddle (q.v.). Related: Mollycoddled; mollycoddling.
