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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

... to help it if you will be such a mollycoddle! Slip on your socks and shoes now. I want ...

— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn

... a little stroll. Perhaps the sight of all those happy lads running and jumping and throwing weights had made him feel more than ever his own narrow, confined life, kept out of the society of all the other boys after school hours, and made to play the part of a "mollycoddle," as Roosevelt called all such fellows who have never learned how to take care of themselves when a ...

— The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path • Donald Ferguson

... submit. I had the contempt for him which a philistine boy feels for a creature whom he knows he can lick with one hand tied behind his back, and I had nothing whatever to say to him. But Pennini was not such a mollycoddle and ass as he looked, and when he grew up he gave evidence enough of having a mind and a way of his own. My mother took him at his mother's valuation, and both she and my father have expressed admiration of the whole Browning tribe in their published journals. Mrs. Browning seemed ...

— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne

... know who the latest reigning theatrical beauty was, and moreover, did not care a rap; who could understand a joke within reasonable time if he couldn't tell one; who was neither a nincompoop nor a mollycoddle. Thomas interested Killigrew more and more as ...

— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath