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milksop
[ milk-sop ]
milksop
/ ˈmɪlkˌsɒp /
noun
- a feeble or ineffectual man or youth
- a dish of bread soaked in warm milk, given esp to infants and invalids
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Derived Forms
- ˈmilkˌsopism, noun
- ˈmilkˌsoppy, adjective
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Other Words From
- milksopism noun
- milksoppy milksopping adjective
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Example Sentences
Luckily the third in command, Lieutenant Heady, was no milksop.
As may be supposed, no one after this ventured to call Ellis a milksop, or to speak disparagingly of him in any other way.
"Why, it would take a little pink milksop like Bertha Parkes to wear such colors as those," she said behind his back one day.
Wiser boys called me a milksop and various other names, which I furiously resented yet inwardly recognized as just.
Master Stewart might be a milksop, but Crispin accounted him leastways honest, and had a kindness for him in spite of all.
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