"Mollycoddle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no mollycoddle! All nonsense to keep me pinned in like this. Will you go with me—be ...
— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath
... prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration^, deliquium [Lat.], collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy [Med.], orchotomy [Med.]. cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch. V. be impotent &c adj.; not have a leg to stand on. vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [Fr.], vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents [Fr.]. collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... a matter well worthy of thought. The author's worst enemy would not call him a mollycoddle, yet he has never travelled in far wilds without carrying something in the way of medicine. First, then, on this subject, it cannot be too often reiterated that if common Epsom salts were a guinea an ounce instead of a penny the medicine would be valued accordingly, but it ...
— Getting Gold • J. C. F. Johnson
... Neaera, you'll be sorry. No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry! Because ...
— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams |
