Synonyms for milksop
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : milk-sop |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɪlkˌsɒp |
Top 10 synonyms for milksop Other synonyms for the word milksop
Définition of milksop
Origin :- "effeminate spiritless man," late 14c., attested as a (fictional) surname mid-13c.; also applied in Middle English to the infant Christ. Literal sense "piece of bread soaked in milk" attested late 15c.; see milk (n.) + sop (n.).
- noun coward
- I may have blushed and stammered, and I may have blubbered like a milksop, but it was not because I was afraid.
- Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post
- So Crosson called Drury a milksop because he would not go hunting.
- Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
- I don't want to stop the boy's reading, but I can't have him a milksop.
- Extract from : « David Elginbrod » by George MacDonald
- To develop it I 69 replied guardedly, albeit unwilling to pose as a milksop.
- Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin
- As it was, everybody said he was a milksop, and a tender-foot, and he was just sick of it.
- Extract from : « The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories » by Bret Harte
- A milksop; and that I must come and rough it among other boys.
- Extract from : « Burr Junior » by G. Manville Fenn
- Why, whatever authority can we have when the most we can do is to report fellows to that milksop?
- Extract from : « The Willoughby Captains » by Talbot Baines Reed
- I was wild enough, but I promise you I was a milksop to him.
- Extract from : « Roger Ingleton, Minor » by Talbot Baines Reed
- If he hasn't the courage, why he's a milksop, and no Louisas were born for the like of him.
- Extract from : « Love and Intrigue » by Friedrich Schiller
- You see, at heart he was a slow-coach, a milksop, nothing of the man of the world about him.
- Extract from : « Somehow Good » by William de Morgan
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