milksop
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- noun
- /ˈmɪlkˌsɑp/
- Offensive
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blandengue
- Look at the pathetic milksop.
Examples
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Come on, you milksops!
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Why, hang me for a sheep-stealing son of tarantula if you ain't a pack of yellow-bellied milksops.
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"You are such a milksop; you are afraid to stand up and take advantage of the moment and profit from it.
Fiction book (1994) -
On the contrary, we seem like milksops compared to you.
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You're a bit of a milksop, aren't you?
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You surround yourself with milksops and manikins.
Fiction book (1990) -
Like Malamud, Levin is the classic Jewish milksop.
Academic text (2012) -
It was the Viscount Temple, the gentleman whom Dalmar derisively referred to as "The Milksop," and whom he had mistaken for her lover.
Fiction book (1990) -
Brice Catledge is the young milksop who's smitten with her, and ready to lay his family fortune at her feet to subsidize her chicanery.
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He called me a milksop because I didn't want to join in the dangerous game.
Synonyms
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A man or boy who seems weak and afraid to act
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A person who is weak and lacks courage or strength
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A person who is very shy and does not speak up
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Etymology
The word milksop comes from the idea of a sop, a piece of bread soaked in milk. A milksop was compared to wet bread, 'soft' and 'weak', so today it means a man or boy who is timid and not brave.