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Definition of Mollycoddle
1. Verb. Treat with excessive indulgence. "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
Generic synonyms: Do By, Handle, Treat
Derivative terms: Baby, Coddler, Indulgence, Indulging, Mollycoddler, Pamperer, Pampering, Spoiler
2. Noun. A pampered darling; an effeminate man.
Definition of Mollycoddle
1. Noun. (rare) A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mollycoddle
1. [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollycoddle
Literary usage of Mollycoddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appearances: Being Notes of Travel by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1914)
"The Red-blood joins societies; the mollycoddle is a non-joiner. Individualist of
individualists, he can only stand alone, while the Red-blood requires the ..."
2. We; a Confession of Faith for the American People During and After the War by Gerald Stanley Lee (1916)
"... XXIV THE LAST MURMUR OF A mollycoddle If I could convert Colonel Roosevelt to
my idea of war I could convert the world. Converting the world would be a ..."
3. We; a Confession of Faith for the American People During and After the War by Gerald Stanley Lee (1916)
"... LAST MURMUR OF A mollycoddle If I could convert Colonel Roosevelt to my idea
of war I could convert the world. Converting the world would be a ..."
4. The Writing of English by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1920)
"The following extract is characteristic: The Red-blood sees nothing; but the
mollycoddle sees through everything. The Red-blood joins societies; ..."
5. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention (1908)
"We hear a great deal nowadays about the manly boy and about the dangers of his
becoming a mollycoddle, but in our efforts to make his school life attractive ..."
6. The Tailor Made Girl, Her Friends, Her Fashions and Her Follies by Philip Henry Welch (1888)
"Oh, but you know Doctor mollycoddle, in his " Nursery Talks," expressly prohibits
... Baby has very little hair yet—but Dr. mollycoddle says, in his book, ..."
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