This slang word usually means a milksop, but here it is equivalent to 'a butterfly', 'a weathercock'a man of changeable disposition.

His mother knew he had moral courage, and would face any issue pluckily, but his father feared he would grow up a milksop, and thought he needed hardening.

And shall we die like milksops, dreaming thus? OCTAVIUS.

"It's only young milksops like you that have made it fashionable.

The wife of the host of the Tabard inn is a vixen and shrew, who calls her husband a milksop, and is so formidable with both her tongue and her hands that he is glad to make his escape from her whenever he can.

When I saw her father take her by the hand and call me for a witness, my heart began to quake; but, to say the truth, she had little reason to take a cullian lug-loaf, milksop slave, when she may have a lawyer, a gentleman that stands upon his reputation in the country, one whose diminutive defect of law may compare with his little learning.

It's only good for milksops and hypocrites.

His masterful bearing, too, was a pleasure to the spirited Elspie, who had no liking for milksops, and had sent off more than one lover because he came crawling too humbly to her feet.

All this to maintain, in spite of the reader, that Londonderry is no milksop because he is not going to jiltthat is, murderpoor little Jenny, throw up New Zion, and seek his new love on the wild winds.

Young men with cigars in their mouths and the perfume of liquor on their breaths, shrugged their shoulders and called him a milksop because he preferred the church and Sunday school to the liquor saloon and gambling dens.

" "You are a greater milksop than I gave you credit for.

He is a young medical milksop, to whom Argan has promised his daughter Angelique in marriage.

He was no milksop.

Catch me teaching milksops again!

"Mothers' darlings make but milksop heroes.

Am I a milksop?

Thou know'st that I'm no milksop, General!

I'm no milksop!

Raggedy Ann: Meany milksops.

Raggedy Ann: Meany milksops.

It will be farewell to your chance of having that milksop of a Marquis for a pupil!'

What milksops the Marlboroughs and Turennes, the Blakes and the Van Tromps appear now, who whipped into winter quarters and into port, the moment their noses looked blue.

I'm a milksop compared with a red-headed Indian you never saw before.

For I longed to do something to show that I also was no milksop.

Milksops I hate, and send to the monkeries.