mollycoddle

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That we should mollycoddle them, lest we hurt their gentle feelings?

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a pampered darling; an effeminate man

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noun

a pampered darling; an effeminate man

verb

treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mollycoddle.

noun

a pampered darling; an effeminate man

verb

treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

See also: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, spoil, indulge

Example sentences

That we should mollycoddle them, lest we hurt their gentle feelings?

Smart people don't need to be beaten into shape, just like they don't need to be mollycoddled.

Perhaps a bit Old School; he's not there to mollycoddle and entertain your needs.

All of us?Some of us had to matured early, since we were raised on family farms without the benefit of being mollycoddled.

There are more luxurious versions but the whole point of these knives is that they are tools to be used, not mollycoddled or used for snobbish whatever-signalling purposes.

Now we gotta mollycoddle programmers into thinking about "new" paradigms, which are really not new at all, by wrapping it all up in javascript otherwise they run away screaming?I hope that's not true.

For my money your job as a parent is to protect them, support them and help them develop the skills to deal with it when that comes along, but I think that stops short of hurling more shit in an attempt to "toughen them up".I'm not saying that they should be mollycoddled, far from it, they do need to learn to deal with tough situations, but for my money the best way to do that is to help them manage the real world situations that come up, rather than simulating potentially unpleasant learning experiences when the two of you could be out doing something enjoyable together.