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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Were its ballplayers men or New Age mollycoddles?
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I'm tired of mollycoddles and book-worms,' said Nan in her decided way.
From Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
But, so far as the imagination is concerned, they themselves are mollycoddles who will not venture beyond a game of halma or a sugarstick by the hearth.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
We're a passel of mollycoddles, asleep on the job.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
