mollycoddle
noun
a man or boy who is used to being coddled; a milksop.
mollycoddles
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present tense formof mollycoddle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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So, you see, the picture as you paint it gives us credit for being real hemen, when as a matter of fact we have degenerated into a bunch of mollycoddles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Were its ballplayers men or New Age mollycoddles?
From Time Magazine Archive
A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We're a passel of mollycoddles, asleep on the job.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
Besides, I don't want them to grow up spoiled mollycoddles.
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
