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milksops

milksops is the plural of milksop.

Meaning of milksop

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...
    Synonyms:
    milquetoast, sissy, wuss

Questions about milksops

What is milksops the plural of?
Milksops is the plural of milksop.

Words near milksops in the dictionary

  1. milksopish
  2. milksopism
  3. milksoppery
  4. milksoppish
  5. milksoppy
  6. milksops
  7. milkstache
  8. milkstaches
  9. milkstain
  10. milkstained
  11. milkstains

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