milksop
Americannoun
noun
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a feeble or ineffectual man or youth
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a dish of bread soaked in warm milk, given esp to infants and invalids
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In any case, the new trio's dynamic works – beginning with Tennant's beleagured version of Fogg, a man of precision and privilege who's also seen as a milksop by his Reform Club peers.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022
Thorne has a little list: "I still call people nincompoops, mainly to amuse my kids - lickspittle, twerp or milksop."
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2013
Poor David Hallberg, who as Des Grieux is given perhaps Mr. Neumeier’s most antimusical choreography, was made up to look like a spectral milksop.
From New York Times • May 26, 2010
No milksop is bristling, ruddy, white-haired Whitney Warren, smart and picturesque Manhattan architect, who designed the new Library, and received from Cardinal Mercier the virile Latin inscription.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Perhaps something worse, father," said Ulric, curtly, "but he would not have grown into a milksop like that, you may take my word for it."
From Success and How He Won It by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
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