Milksop

Definitions

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. An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
   broadly, derogatory

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Examples

“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: […]”

““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!””

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