mollycoddle

4 definitions found

mollycoddle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  mollycoddle \mollycoddle\ n.
     a pampered darling; an effeminate man; a milksop.
     [WordNet 1.5]

  mollycoddle \mollycoddle\ v. t.
     To pamper or coddle.
     [PJC]

mollycoddle - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mollycoddle
      n 1: a pampered darling; an effeminate man
      v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
           the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
           pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby,
           coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]

mollycoddle - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "mollycoddle":
     Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, Percy, baby, bay, big baby, cater to,
     chicken, cocker, coddle, cosset, cream puff, crybaby, doormat,
     dull tool, effeminate, enfant terrible, favor, give way to,
     goody-goody, gratify, gutless wonder, humor, indulge, invertebrate,
     jellyfish, lightweight, lily, meek soul, milksop, much,
     namby-pamby, nance, nancy, naughty child, nebbish, nonentity,
     oblige, old woman, pamper, pansy, pantywaist, please, pushover,
     sad sack, satisfy, sissy, softling, softy, sop, spoil,
     spoiled child, weak sister, weakling, yield to