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milksop

/milk-sop/US // ˈmɪlkˌsɒp //UK // (ˈmɪlkˌsɒp) //

奶妈,奶爸,乳客,奶妈们

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a weak or ineffectual person.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Luckily the third in command, Lieutenant Heady, was no milksop.

  • As may be supposed, no one after this ventured to call Ellis a milksop, or to speak disparagingly of him in any other way.

  • "Why, it would take a little pink milksop like Bertha Parkes to wear such colors as those," she said behind his back one day.

  • Wiser boys called me a milksop and various other names, which I furiously resented yet inwardly recognized as just.

  • Master Stewart might be a milksop, but Crispin accounted him leastways honest, and had a kindness for him in spite of all.