Mollycoddle meaning

Noun: mollycoddle

Pronunciation: (mo-lee,ko-d(u)l)

Mollycoddle meaning: A pampered darling or an effeminate man

Verb: mollycoddle

Mollycoddle meaning: Treat with excessive indulgence

Synonyms: coddle, pamper, featherbed, indulge, cocker, baby, cosset

Quotations: Prince William – The last thing I want to do is be mollycoddled or be wrapped up in cotton wool, because if I was to join the Army, I would want to go where my men went, and I’d want to do what they did. I would not want to be kept back for being precious, or whatever – that’s the last thing I would want.

Ty Cobb – Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. When I played ball, I didn’t play for fun. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a contest and everything that implies a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Gary Neville – There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

Sample sentences:

1. The assumption that private schools mollycoddle students is out of touch and not at all true.
2. He has mollycoddled her and spoiled her too much.
3. Generally the critics do not mollycoddle the locals. Artists need to thrive and give their best to stand a chance.
4. He grew alarmed by my bouts of breathless coughing; mollycoddle, he said, but he said it with fright in his face.
5. No one can stop that guy from doing mischievous things as his parents always mollycoddle him.
6. They say that he is the most awful mollycoddle and looks just like a girl.
7. If you want him to be a man, you should not mollycoddle him at any cost.
8. Let’s not mollycoddle our students.
9. You have bred a man, sir, not a mollycoddle, said the young laird quietly.
10. I then came along as a surprise and was therefore a little bit mollycoddled as a kid.