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Mollycoddle   /mˈɑlikˌɑdəl/   Listen
Mollycoddle

verb
1.
Treat with excessive indulgence.  Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil.  "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
noun
1.
A pampered darling; an effeminate man.



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"Mollycoddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... never marry a mollycoddle like you, Harold Hammond!" Big game of the year. Team crippled. Second half. Halfback hurt. Harold Hammond, scrub, into the game. Touchdown! Broken leg. Five to nothing. "Harold, can you ever, ...
— Cheerful--By Request • Edna Ferber
... Glenn?" returned Carley, in feigned surprise. "Why, I imagined from your tone that Miss Spencer's ride must have occasioned her discomfort.... See here, Glenn. I may be a tenderfoot, but I'm no mollycoddle." ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey
... said, "what you think. I'm a fine specimen of a man to send on a hunt like that. A weak-kneed mollycoddle who passes into a state of coma at the crucial moment. But—I'm going to ...
— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers
... is the real thing, Betty, child. He's the sure win-out on Broadway. But how long will it take you to write that play for your mollycoddle poet? You can get through with it before the Country Club gets going good, can't you? We've had a new floor in the dancing-pavilion built, and the directors ordered a foxy music ...
— Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess


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