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mol⋅ly⋅cod⋅dle

  [mol-ee-kod-l] noun, verb, -dled, -dling.
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–noun
1. a man or boy who is used to being coddled; a milksop.
–verb (used with object)
2. to coddle; pamper.
Origin:
1825–35; Molly + coddle

Related forms:
mol⋅ly⋅cod⋅dler, noun

Synonyms:
2. spoil, indulge, cosset.
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mol·ly·cod·dle   (mŏl'ē-kŏd'l)   
v.   tr. mol·ly·cod·dled, mol·ly·cod·dling, mol·ly·cod·dles
To be overprotective and indulgent toward. See Synonyms at pamper.
n.  A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.

[molly, milksop (from Molly, nickname for Mary) + coddle.]
mol'ly·cod'dler n.
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mollycoddle 
1833, originally a noun, "one who coddles himself," from Molly (pet name formation from Mary), used contemptuously from 1754 for "a milksop, an effeminate man" + coddle (q.v.). The verb is 1870, from the noun.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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