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- noun Plural form of
milksop .
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Examples
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At a certain green age young gentlemen are sometimes afraid of being called milksops, and Philip's associates had not always been the most select, such as these historians would have chosen for him, or whom at a later, period he would have chosen for himself.
The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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At a certain green age young gentlemen are sometimes afraid of being called milksops, and Philip's associates had not always been the most select, such as these historians would have chosen for him, or whom at a later, period he would have chosen for himself.
The Gilded Age, Part 7. Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The Punch and the NT are milksops of the online community, emasculated by their parent companies so that their only possible goal is to block a real HuffPo clone from destroying their hosts.
Archive 2010-07-01 2010
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The Punch and the NT are milksops of the online community, emasculated by their parent companies so that their only possible goal is to block a real HuffPo clone from destroying their hosts.
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Hagel and the other mollycoddled milksops on the far radical left would rather spend money on college degrees on lifers in prison, butterfly museums, health care for criminal illegals, farm subsidies to millionaire sugar/tobacco farmers and all the wastefull 1325 federal programs that are so outdated, as to be CRIMINAL!
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Even if the Democrats talk a good game about their agenda, they turn into dithering milksops once they're in power.
nad hen j��c eto 2010
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And they were no poules mouill-es, no milksops, those three lads.
Watershed 2010
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All the loud mouths, the obstructionists, the Obama-haters, the cowards who have cut and run from the American people and who have thrown in with the corporate carnivores are just wimpering, shivering milksops.
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Ha ha, let the poor little Labour milksops have their bit of fun while they can, I say.
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But as to your milksops, your dough-baked lovers, who stay at home and strut among the women, when glory is to be gained in the martial field; I despise them with all my heart.
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