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Teacher's Pet
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mollycoddle
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Word definitions for mollycoddle in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Stop mollycoddling those kids - they need to think for themselves. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I have never mollycoddled any of my artists. ▪ I realised I'd been mollycoddled at school. ▪ They must be presented, minded and ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mollycoddle \mollycoddle\ v. t. To pamper or coddle.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper , featherbed , cosset , cocker , baby , coddle , spoil , indulge ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of mollycoddle.
Quint followed, astride a short-coupled bay mare renowned on the ranch for her ability to mollycoddle the greenest rider, hence earning the name Molly.
But he always put on another pair and another suit come the morningrested the mollycoddles or something, he said.
But he always put on another pair and another suit come the morning-rested the mollycoddles or something, he said.
She called Matzerath a mollycoddle, whereupon he picked up his trousers, stepped in, and buttoned up.
Unless Americans act, people like you and me who take their country seriously while those mollycoddles in Washington sit on their hindsides, unless we act, Mexico—and I mean the whole of the country—will one day fly a European flag.
Burn her, if everyone did not stop expecting her to be mollycoddled all the day long.
Still, he thought, his back aching, wanting a bath and massage too, and the attentions of his youthful friend, I suppose I would be the same if I was as exalted as them, so mollycoddled from birth, and only sixteen.
I run a yard on a very tight budget and I can’t ensure every horse I sell on is going to be mollycoddled for the rest of its life.
I assume my readers have the kind of elastic minds that don’t need mollycoddling with a lot of fake theorizing.
They're mine and they're good and they aren't messed up with a lot of mollycoddling regular army regulations'.
A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles.
But whatever you do or don't do, stop mollycoddling and conceding and apologising and wimping out.