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[milk-sop] 
–noun
| a weak or ineffectual person. |
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| milk·sop (mĭlk'sŏp') n. A man lacking courage and other qualities deemed manly. milk'sop'py adj. |
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Milksop
Milk"sop`\, n. A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. --Shak. To wed a milksop or a coward ape. --Chaucer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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milksop
"effeminate spiritless man," attested as a surname c.1246, also applied in M.E. to the infant Christ.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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