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Meanings of
Milquetoast
in English
Portuguese
boiola
Catalan
marieta
Back to the meaning
A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.
sissy
pansy
milksop
pantywaist
Portuguese
boiola
A person who lacks courage.
chicken
coward
craven
Usage of
Milquetoast
in English
1
They channel neither Evel Knievel nor Caspar
Milquetoast
,
neither lion tamer nor monk.
2
Before long they'll start to disobey us without any
Milquetoast
interfering with their circuits.
3
Dr
Milquetoast
continued to work, even more energetically than before.
4
You've been Caspar
Milquetoast
Two ever since we left Base.
5
There have always been Marvin
Milquetoast
and Walter Mitty kinds of guys out there.
6
We had half a mind to stop in, and ask if Mr.
Milquetoast
was home.
7
He wasn't called Dr
Milquetoast
,
but he should have been and that's what I'll christen him.
8
He called Dr
Milquetoast
into his office.
9
He practically insinuated that
Milquetoast
and his colleagues, by falling behind their deadlines, were guilty of un-American inactivity.
10
Basically, I wanted to know if it was intrinsically better to be an Evel Knievel or a Caspar
Milquetoast
?
11
Somewhere tucked away in Karl's capacious memory units was a superb collection of insults, lovingly assembled by Dr
Milquetoast
.
12
The coroner, one Jason Kirchner, was an inoffensive-looking little fellow with a Caspar
Milquetoast
mustache and an underslung jaw.
13
We might even chuckle at the Marvin
Milquetoast
behaviors of these men as portrayed in comic strips and television sitcoms.
14
Dr
Milquetoast
was not the sort of man to explain the error, even if the General had given him the opportunity.
15
The New Yorker, November 5, 1949 P. 46 PROFILE of Harold Tucker Webster, the creator of Caspar
Milquetoast
.
16
The engineers are still trying to unravel the circuits that Dr
Milquetoast
installed, and no doubt it's only a matter of time before they succeed.
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milquetoast
Adjective
Frequent collocations
milquetoast husband
accordingly milquetoast
artfully milquetoast
how milquetoast
milquetoast behaviors
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Translations for
Milquetoast
Portuguese
boiola
baitola
Catalan
marieta
figa-flor
nyicris
Milquetoast
through the time