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milksop
/ˈmɪlkˌsɒp/
noun 3
Collocations
1MILKSOP + NOUN
creature
Definitions
noun
1
A piece of bread sopped in milk.
2
A dish consisting of bread pieces in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and covered in hot milk.
3
An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey fellovv,? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: […]
“That milksop of a creature pretend to be worthy of such a woman as Mrs. Pendennis,” broke out the Doctor: “where will impudence stop next!”
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noun — a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
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And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey fellovv,? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: […]
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“That milksop of a creature pretend to be worthy of such a woman as Mrs. Pendennis,” broke out the Doctor: “where will impudence stop next!”
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