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milksop

[ milk-sop ]

noun

  1. a weak or ineffectual person.

    Synonyms: wimp, namby-pamby, softy, milquetoast



milksop

/ ˈmɪlkˌsɒp /

noun

  1. a feeble or ineffectual man or youth
  2. a dish of bread soaked in warm milk, given esp to infants and invalids
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈmilkˌsoppy, adjective
  • ˈmilkˌsopism, noun
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Other Words From

  • milksopism noun
  • milksoppy milksopping adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of milksop1

1350–1400; Middle English. See milk, sop
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Example Sentences

Luckily the third in command, Lieutenant Heady, was no milksop.

As may be supposed, no one after this ventured to call Ellis a milksop, or to speak disparagingly of him in any other way.

"Why, it would take a little pink milksop like Bertha Parkes to wear such colors as those," she said behind his back one day.

Wiser boys called me a milksop and various other names, which I furiously resented yet inwardly recognized as just.

Master Stewart might be a milksop, but Crispin accounted him leastways honest, and had a kindness for him in spite of all.

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