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Timid type
Answer for the clue "Timid type ", 7 letters:
milksop
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive [syn: sissy , pantywaist , pansy , Milquetoast ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"effeminate spiritless man," late 14c., attested as a (fictional) surname mid-13c.; also applied in Middle English to the infant Christ. Literal sense "piece of bread soaked in milk" attested late 15c.; see milk (n.) + sop (n.).
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 .
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.