mollycoddle
UK/ˈmɒl.ɪˌkɒd.əl//ˈmɑl.iˌkɑd.əl/
mollycoddle noun: a person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
Noun
mollycoddle (plural mollycoddles)
- A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
- You have been bred up as a molly-coddle, Pen, and spoilt by the women.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 32, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
- No matter what pacifist "flubdubs and flapdoodle mollycoddles" might say, the President [Teddy Roosevelt] knew that if there were a general war then America could well be drawn into it.2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
Verb
mollycoddle (third-person singular simple present mollycoddles, present participle mollycoddling, simple past and past participle mollycoddled)
- To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.
- Heerendorp by this means obtained an evil notoriety, and it was ordered to be burnt, and the women of Jacob's family to be transferred to a concentration camp where they would be mollycoddled at the expense of the English taxpayer.1904, Sabine Baring-Gould, The White Flag
- Rich countries also need more competition in traditionally mollycoddled sectors such as education.Oct 13th 2012, “Policy prescriptions: A True Progressivism”, in The Economist
mollycoddle meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
mollycoddle in Tamil
- மீகாப்பு
mollycoddle in Malayalam
- coddle, pamper, cosset
- ലാളിക്കുക, ലാലിക്കുക, ഓമനിക്കുക, കൊഞ്ചിക്കുക, അമിതമായി ലാളിക്കുക, വാത്സല്യം ചൊരിയുക
- drip, drop, dribble
- തുള്ളി, തൊള്ളി, ഭിന്ദു, വിന്ദു, കണി, കണിക
Forms of mollycoddle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mollycoddles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mollycoddles |
| present participle | mollycoddling |
| past participle | mollycoddled |
| past | mollycoddled |
Origin of mollycoddle
From molly + coddle.
Words formed from mollycoddle
Words that rhyme with mollycoddle
Questions about mollycoddle
- What does mollycoddle mean?
- Mollycoddle means a person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
- What is mollycoddle in Tamil?
- Mollycoddle in Tamil is மீகாப்பு. See Mollycoddle meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is mollycoddle?
- Mollycoddle can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce mollycoddle?
- Mollycoddle is pronounced /ˈmɒl.ɪˌkɒd.əl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mollycoddle?
- The plural of mollycoddle is mollycoddles.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mollycoddle (page history and authors); mollycoddle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mollycoddle (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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