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A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.

Ús de milksop en anglès

The session with the milksop from the Foundation had been quite unrewarding. 
 Second Foundation 

I am a milksop, as I have had the honour to say. 
 The Virginians 

You've gone to all the trouble to kidnap a timid little milksop. 
 Helen of troy 

She disliked her elder nephew exceedingly, and despised him as a milksop. 
 Vanity Fair 

I called 'un a milksop, and he hath proved me a liar. 
 Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale 

He's sorry and won't do it again, and-well ,I'dhate a milksop. 
 The Cost 

You are most insulting; one would think I were a milksop. 
 Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers 

And tell them to fetch that milksop Ogeron to the cabin. 
 Captain Blood 

For one who sets up for a milksop you have the readiest hand. 
 The Cloister and the Hearth 

You are a greater milksop than I gave you credit for. 
 Trial and Triumph 

I must decide to be either a man or a milksop. 
 Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home 

A bully, a coward, a puling milksop, is all the character he beareth. 
 Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale 

Little milksop, travelling with a muff of a tutor, I suppose. 
 The Princess Passes 

Are all to suffer because one chooses to be a milksop? 
 The Cloister and the Hearth 

But let this milksop of a President do his worst. 
 The Crisis — Volume 04 

I was wild enough, but I promise you I was a milksop to him. 
 Roger Ingleton, Minor 

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Significats de milksop en anglès