milksop
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Noun (1)
- a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertiveSynonyms: sissypantywaistpansyMilquetoastType of coward
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Milk′sop′ noun
A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. William Shakespeare
To wed a milksop or a coward ape.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54