milksop
a weak or ineffectual person.
Origin of milksop
1Other words for milksop
Other words from milksop
- milksopism, noun
- milksoppy, milksopping, adjective
Words Nearby milksop
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How to use milksop in a sentence
Luckily the third in command, Lieutenant Heady, was no milksop.
Old Farm Fairies: | Henry Christopher McCookAs may be supposed, no one after this ventured to call Ellis a milksop, or to speak disparagingly of him in any other way.
The Ferryman of Brill | William H. G. Kingston"Why, it would take a little pink milksop like Bertha Parkes to wear such colors as those," she said behind his back one day.
The Annals of Ann | Kate Trimble SharberWiser boys called me a milksop and various other names, which I furiously resented yet inwardly recognized as just.
The Heather-Moon | C. N. Williamson and A. M. WilliamsonMaster Stewart might be a milksop, but Crispin accounted him leastways honest, and had a kindness for him in spite of all.
The Tavern Knight | Rafael Sabatini
British Dictionary definitions for milksop
/ (ˈmɪlkˌsɒp) /
a feeble or ineffectual man or youth
British a dish of bread soaked in warm milk, given esp to infants and invalids
Derived forms of milksop
- milksoppy or milksopping, adjective
- milksopism, noun
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