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milksop

/ˈmɪlkˌsɒp/

milksop noun: a piece of bread sopped in milk.

Noun

milksop (plural milksops)

  1. A piece of bread sopped in milk.
  2. A dish consisting of bread pieces in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and covered in hot milk.
  3. (broadly, derogatory) An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
    • And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey fellovv,? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: […]c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC...
    • “That milksop of a creature pretend to be worthy of such a woman as Mrs. Pendennis,” broke out the Doctor: “where will impudence stop next!”1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XVI, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
    Synonyms:
    milquetoast, sissy, wuss

milksop meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

milksop in Urdu

نامرد, زنانہ, زنخا

milksop in Malayalam

coward, namby-pamby, weakling
ഭീരു, ചപലൻ, വിഡ്ഢിത്തവും അതിഭാവുകത്വവും ഉള്ളവൻ, ഭീരുകൻ, ഭേകൻ, ചികുരൻ

milksop in Kannada

ಸತ್ವಹೀನ, ಬಲಹೀನ, ದುರ್ಬಲ, ಹೆಣ್ಣಿಗ

Synonyms of milksop

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Antonyms

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Forms of milksop

pluralmilksops

Origin of milksop

From Middle English milksop, mylk sop, mylke soppe, equivalent to milk + sop.

Words formed from milksop

Questions about milksop

What does milksop mean?
Milksop means a piece of bread sopped in milk.
What is milksop in Urdu?
Milksop in Urdu is نامرد, زنانہ, زنخا. See Milksop meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is milksop?
Milksop is a noun.
How do you pronounce milksop?
Milksop is pronounced /ˈmɪlkˌsɒp/.
What is the plural of milksop?
The plural of milksop is milksops.

Words near milksop in the dictionary

  1. milksick
  2. milksicle
  3. milksicles
  4. milksnake
  5. milksnakes
  6. milksop
  7. milksopish
  8. milksopism
  9. milksoppery
  10. milksoppish
  11. milksoppy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: milksop (page history and authors); milksop (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); milksop (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); milksop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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