Yew old mollycoddle!

"Thirty mollycoddling women-folks.

Maybe he was too old for anything except just to be "mollycoddled" by thoughtful old ladies.

"Your system of inheritance and entail may be somewhat to blame, but your worst fault is in rearing a class of mollycoddles and social drones who are never of benefit to themselves or the world at large.

To the practical men of affairs, the shopkeepers and traders, the land-owners and ship-owners, the soldiers and sailors, the statesmen and politicians, the people who specialized in maneuvering human beings and materials, they were, for this futile devotion to abstract knowledge, marked ridiculous and absurd weaklings, mollycoddles, babies, not to be trusted with the demands and dangers of public life.

I can't let that mollycoddle marry her!"

[Med.], orchotomy [Med.]. cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch.

[U.S.], cotquean^, henhussy^, mollycoddle, muff, old woman.

They view everybody with contempt and call the man of good family a mollycoddle, the ill-born a dwarfed intellect, a handsome person licentious, an ugly person comely, the rich man an apostle of greed, and the poor man a servile groveler.

The athletic story: "I could never marry a mollycoddle like you, Harold Hammond!"

When one mother tries to be all those things to one son that son has a very fair chance of turning out a mollycoddle.

Nothing is more contemptible than for a woman to have perpetually to ask her husband for small sums for housekeeping expensesnothing more annoying and humiliating than to have to apply to him always for money for her own private usenothing more disgusting than to see a man "mollycoddling" about marketing, and rummaging about for cheap articles of all kinds.

It's Mamma!" MOLLYCODDLES "Tommy, why don't you play with Frank any more?" asked Tommy's mother, who noticed that he was cultivating the acquaintance of a new boy on the block.

" "We was," replied Tommy superciliously, "but he's a mollycoddle.

MISSIONS MISTAKEN IDENTITY MOLLYCODDLES MONEY MORAL EDUCATION MOSQUITOES MOTHERS MOTHERS-IN-LAW MOTORCYCLES MOUNTAINS