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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
milksop
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He found her solicitude touching but Modigliani dismissed her, calling her a milksop.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Milksop

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
milksop

"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.).

Wiktionary
milksop

n. 1 A piece of bread sopped in milk. 2 (context by extension pejorative English) A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.

WordNet
milksop

n. a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive [syn: sissy, pantywaist, pansy, Milquetoast]

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.