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What (who) is milksop - definition
milksop
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
¦ noun a timid or ineffectual man or boy.
Milksop
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
·noun A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.
milksop
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
n.
1.
Piece of bread sopped in milk.
2.
Effeminate man, feeble-minded man.
Examples of use of milksop
1. The collection favours gender–neutral language that turns Good Christian Men Rejoice into Good Christians All Rejoice, and drains the imagery from one of the greatest of all hymns, Holy, Holy Holy: the line that runs though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see becomes though the sinful human eye thy glory may not see, turning a powerful verse into a milksop ballad.