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Milksop

//ˈmɪlkˌsɒp// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A piece of bread sopped in milk.
  2. 2
    a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive wordnet
  3. 3
    A dish consisting of bread pieces in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and covered in hot milk.
  4. 4
    An easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person. broadly, derogatory

    "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: […]"

Etymology

From Middle English milksop, mylk sop, mylke soppe, equivalent to milk + sop.

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