mollycoddle
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9.9
A person who is treated with too much care and seems weak
- noun
- /ˈmɑliˌkɑdəl/
- Offensive
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mimado
- In the sports team, he was often called a mollycoddle for avoiding tough training sessions.
Examples
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You're a fine bundle of mollycoddles.
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"Far too many mollycoddles in the world today.
Fiction book (2002) -
It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out of it.
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You think religion is for suckers and easy marks and mollycoddles, huh?
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Many people believe that he is a mollycoddle because his parents always do everything for him.
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As a child, he was seen as a mollycoddle, never encouraged to take risks or face challenges.
Synonyms
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8.1
A person who depends too much on their mother and cannot make their own decisions
is more about being pampered and judged as effeminate than maternal dependence
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9.9
A person, often a man, who seems weak, afraid, or easily upset
is about being pampered and seen as overly feminine rather than just cowardly
Antonyms
Surface Forms
mollycoddle singular
mollycoddles plural
Morphology
Etymology
Mollycoddle probably comes from the woman's name Molly combined with the verb coddle, which means 'to pamper'. So a mollycoddle is someone who has been treated so gently that others see them as weak.