mollycoddle
mo lee ko duhl
- n a pampered darling; an effeminate man
- v treat with excessive indulgence
Let's not mollycoddle our students!
- The reserves couldn't fall back on the mollycoddle collection of exemptions that a softheaded Congress had written into the draft law, and that softhearted draft boards had been .
- By the time he went to school, the boy was a weak-eyed, skinny mollycoddle and prig, already "pathetically conscious of being a misfit.
- To a British fighting man Egypt is the last country on earth which the Empire can afford to mollycoddle.