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milksop

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milk·sop  (mlksp)
n.
A man lacking courage and other qualities deemed manly.
milksoppy adj.
milksop [ˈmɪlkˌsɒp]
n
1. a feeble or ineffectual man or youth
2. (Cookery) Brit a dish of bread soaked in warm milk, given esp to infants and invalids
milksoppy , milksopping adj
milksopism  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.milksop - a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
Milquetoast, pantywaist, sissy, pansy
coward - a person who shows fear or timidity
Translations
milksop [ˈmɪlksɒp] N → marica m


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Better a thousand times he should be a milksop than what he, Hunsden, calls 'a fine lad;' and moreover she says that if Hunsden were to become a fixture in the neighbourhood, and were not a mere comet, coming and going, no one knows how, when, where, or why, she should be quite uneasy till she had got Victor away to a school at least a hundred miles off; for that with his mutinous maxims and unpractical dogmas, he would ruin a score of children.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
- The poor child will be the veriest milksop that ever was sopped
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
My husband often expressed much dissatisfaction at the lieutenant's preferring my company to his; he was very angry with me on that account, and gave me many a hearty curse for drawing away his companions; saying, `I ought to be d--n'd for having spoiled one of the prettiest fellows in the world, by making a milksop of him.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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