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milksop
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Word definitions for milksop in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He found her solicitude touching but Modigliani dismissed her, calling her a milksop .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A piece of bread sopped in milk. 2 (context by extension pejorative English) A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Milksop \Milk"sop`\, n. A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. --Shak. To wed a milksop or a coward ape. --Chaucer.
Usage examples of milksop.
And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains, That dare as well answer a man indeed As I dare take a serpent by the tongue: Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!
The camera operator begins in each case with a two-shot, then, like a desperado tormenting a milksop, aims his weapon at their feet and makes them dance, dance, dance.
The army thought of the Guards as privileged milksops who, despite the occasional foray, avoided the real business of dealing with the Count in the mountains, and who did little or nothing to ensure the safety of Nesdiryn’s boundaries, now under some threat from nervous neighbours since the Count’s overthrow.
This time there are ten in the grouping, and you may bet that Choong hasn't invited nincompoops and milksops to share his dreams!
He'll be off on adventure while we are forever locked in Sussex so that she can train her milksops and their idiotic poetry.
Weak young milksops who tripped over themselves to do the great Lord Blackthorne's bidding.
But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could out-ride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him.