mollycoddling
mollycoddling is the present participle and gerund of mollycoddle.
Meaning of mollycoddle
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
Noun
mollycoddling (countable and uncountable, plural mollycoddlings)
- An act of excessive pampering.
- Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema
Forms of mollycoddling
| plural | mollycoddlings |
|---|
Questions about mollycoddling
- What does mollycoddling mean?
- Mollycoddling means an act of excessive pampering.
- What is mollycoddling the present participle and gerund of?
- Mollycoddling is the present participle and gerund of mollycoddle.
- What part of speech is mollycoddling?
- Mollycoddling is a noun.
- What is the plural of mollycoddling?
- The plural of mollycoddling is mollycoddlings.
Words near mollycoddling in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mollycoddling (page history and authors); mollycoddle (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “mollycoddling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mollycoddling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.