mollycoddle

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Word Origin & History

also molly-coddle, 1870, from a noun (1833) meaning "one who coddles himself," from Molly (pet name formation from Mary), which had been used contemptuously since 1754 for "a milksop, an effeminate man," + coddle (q.v.). Related: Mollycoddled; mollycoddling.

Example Sentences for mollycoddle

Still, primarily, the Mollycoddle is a critic, not a man of action.

But to the Mollycoddle she apportions dyspepsia and black bile.

The Red-blood joins societies; the Mollycoddle is a non-joiner.

The Mollycoddle engenders ideas, and the Red-blood exploits them.

The Mollycoddle also despises the Red-blood, but he cannot do without him.

Nations, like men, may be classified roughly as Red-blood and Mollycoddle.

To be born a Mollycoddle in America is to be born to a hard fate.

Then comes the Mollycoddle, divining all, possessing and offering all.

Hence the fact, noted by a cynic, that it is the Mollycoddle who cuckolds the Red-blood.

He despises her because of the Mollycoddle he divines in her.

mollycoddle

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coddle

coddling

indulge

indulged

indulging

mama's boy

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coddling

indulge

indulged

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mama's boy

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coddle