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Definition of Mollycoddles
1. mollycoddle [v] - See also: mollycoddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollycoddles
Literary usage of Mollycoddles
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)
"We have divided men into Red-bloods and mollycoddles. "A Red-blood man" is a
phrase which explains itself, "Mollycoddle" is its opposite. ..."
2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by National Collegiate Athletic Association (1909)
"If one resists such a revolting aspect of college life and urges brains instead
of massed muscle, he is held up as a patron of mollycoddles and told that ..."
3. Preparedness: The American Versus the Military Programme by William Isaac Hull (1916)
"He has declared them to be \/ " beyond the pale of real and true Americanism "; "
puerile, peace-loving mollycoddles who cannot stand before the Liberty ..."
4. Equal Pay for Equal Work: The Story of the Struggle for Justice Being Made by Grace Charlotte Strachan (1910)
"The notion that our splendid women teachers are making mollycoddles of their boy
... Why, women themselves are anything but mollycoddles in these days of ..."
5. Report of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American (1907)
"... that they have some mollycoddles, the same as other roads, that they were
trying to make men of, but failed, and were bolstered up by the practical men ..."
6. A Valiant Woman: A Contribution to the Educational Problem by Mary Fisher (1912)
"But it is fearless men and women, not mollycoddles, that modern civilization
demands,— men and women who can endure the buffets of adversity as well as pass ..."
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