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Milksop

noun
1.
A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.  Synonyms: Milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist, sissy.






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"Milksop" Quotes from Famous Books



... be calm, my good Brigitte," returned Thuillier. "We mustn't do anything hastily. Certainly, if la Peyrade cannot furnish a justification, clear, categorical, and convincing, I shall decide to break with him, and I'll prove to you that I am no milksop. But Cerizet himself is not certain; these are mere inductions, and I only came to consult you as to whether I ought, or ought not, to demand ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac

... all this? And if Thou remember, dost Thou not understand the dangers which threaten us from this milksop? Still he has under his hand the rudder of the ship of state, which he pushes in among rocks and eddies. Who will assure me that this madman, who yesterday summoned to his presence the Phoenicians, but quarreled with them today, will not do something ...
— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus

... silly and tiresome. The first sight of his boy at the healthy young mother's breast seemed to him charming enough. But before long he was continually scolding Ida for her over-indulgence of the child, telling her he would grow up a milksop, always hanging ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

... of down on your friends to-day, aren't you? I'm an idiot to think of cutting down the pine grove. I'm a milksop compared with a red-headed Indian you never saw before. Now I'm a blunderbuss for answering a simple question asked me by my sister. What do you think I am, anyhow? Fit ...
— Strawberry Acres • Grace S. Richmond

... Dunborough replied with emphasis. 'As you will find, Tommy, if she comes to Oxford, and learns certain things. It will be farewell to your chance of having that milksop of ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman

... you!' he shouted; 'do you hear, milksop? I got the better of your father; I broke his horns—a warning to ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev

... coarse jeers of the brutal, and the poignant ridicule of the cruel for many a long day. Something of this derision had begun already, and he had found no secret place to hide his tears. That they would call him a milksop, a molly-coddle, and all kinds of horrid names, he knew, and he had tried manfully to bear-up under persecution. It was not until after many hot and silent drops had relieved the fever of his overwrought brain, that sleep had come to him, and now it ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

... or nothing that was especially shocking to good taste or proper morals. Herod was a love-sick man of lust, who gazed with longing eyes upon the physical charms of Salome and pleaded for her smiles like any sentimental milksop; but he did not offer her Capernaum for a dance. Salome may have known how, but she did not dance for either half a kingdom or the whole of a man's head. Instead, though there were intimations that her reputation ...
— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... him "milksop," and "sap-head"; words which seemed to the dull intellect of King Pewee exceedingly witty. And as Pewee was Riley's defender, he felt as proud of these rude nicknames as he would had he invented them and ...
— The Hoosier School-boy • Edward Eggleston

... one would think I were a milksop. I was hoping for a ghost—a white lady by choice. Did no Carnegie murder his wife, for instance, through ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren

... a milksop, my Lord! I marvel what he means to do. His brains are but addled eggs—all stuffed with ...
— Clare Avery - A Story of the Spanish Armada • Emily Sarah Holt



Words linked to "Milksop" :   Milquetoast, coward, pansy



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