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Mollycoddle

verb

Treat with excessive indulgence. Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil. "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

noun

A pampered darling; an effeminate man.

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"Mollycoddle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Wrenn, in a frightened diminuendo, now that—wealthy citizen though he had become—he was in danger of exposure as a mollycoddle who couldn't choose his drink properly. "Stummick been hurting me. Guess I'd better ...

— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis

... coming drama. He couldn't count on her. He was doubly sorry because this defection was going to make Anne and Lydia hate her more than ever, and he was averse to the intensification of hatred. He was no mollycoddle, but he had an intuition that hatred is of no use. It hindered things, all sorts ...

— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... Carrie, I don't see any reason, whatever, why he should not go. We didn't bring the boy out here to make a mollycoddle of him. He has got to settle down, some day, in a musty old office; and it seems to me that he ought to have his share in any fun and diversion that he has a chance of getting at, now. As to danger, sure you are a soldier's wife; and why shouldn't he have a share of it, just the ...

— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty

... he was at present far too excited to think of anything rationally. Besides, that last remark about the flannel vests had greatly disturbed him. The carriage was full of people, who must have heard it, and would be sure to set him down as no end of a milksop and mollycoddle. ...

— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed

... the Three," he pleaded, "can't you help me out? Mollycoddle him a bit. Do, now, that's a good child! Keep him 'interested', as she calls it! You are quite as good to look at as Phoebe and are enough more—more,"—and David paused for a word that would compare Caroline's appeal and ...

— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess

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