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Definition: Milksop |
MilksopNoun1. A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "milksop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Milksop (A). An effeminate person; one without energy, one under petticoat government. The allusion is to very young children, who are fed on bread and milk. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: MilksopSynonyms: pansy (n), pantywaist (n), sissy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cowardice | Weak-minded; infirm of purpose; weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted; white-livered, lily-livered, milk-livered; milksop, smock-faced; unable to say " bo " to a goose. |
Coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; dunghill cock; coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say " bo" to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak. | |
Fool | Child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Milksop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Milksop" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
milksop | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "milksop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qullash. (various references) | |
Arabic | المخنث, الشاب المخنث. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мекушав човек, мамино синче (cissy), пикльо (bed-wetter, brat, coward). (various references) | |
Czech | zelenáè (apprentice, cub, fledgeling, fledgling, greener, rookie, sucker), strašpytel. (various references) | |
Farsi | مردزن صفت , نان تلیت شده درشیر. (various references) | |
French | lavette, chiffe molle. (various references) | |
German | Weichling (mollycoddle, sissy, softie, softy, weakling). (various references) | |
Greek | εκτεθηλυμένοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | anyámasszony katonája (mollycoddle, molly-coddle, namby-pamby, sissy boy), tejleves, tejbe áztatott zsemle, puhány (boneless, cissy, mollusc, sissy, weakling), nyám-nyám alak (namby-pamby), nőies férfi (creampuff, cream-puff, pansy, pansy boy, sissy), gyáva ember (caitiff, candyass, coward, rabbit, squib). (various references) | |
Italian | timido (abashed, bashful, coy, diffident, faint, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timide), ragazzo debole. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilksopmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maricas (home-bird, molly, molly-coddle, sissy), indivíduo sem energia, covarde (caitiff, chicken-hearted, coward, cowardly, craven, dastard, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, funky, lily-livered, milk-livered, pusillanimous, recreant, scaramouch, slag, sneaking, white-livered, yellow-livered). (various references) | |
Romanian | papã-lapte. (various references) | |
Russian | трус (caitiff, capon, chicken, chicken-liver, coward, dastard, faintheart, faint-heart, funk, pikelet, piker, poltroon, rat, recreant, yellow dog), тряпка (dust rag, duster, mollycoddle, rag, shred, softy, tatter, washcloth, washrag), бесхарактерный человек (nincompoop). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mekušac (cissy, mollusc, mollusk, molly, mollycoddle, molly-coddle, softy), slabić (cissy, dicky, lame duck, weakling). (various references) | |
Spanish | marica (magpie, mollycoddle, pansy, quean, queen, sissy). (various references) | |
Swedish | morsgris, mes (namby-pamby, pansy, pussyfoot, softy, titmouse, tomtit, wet, wimp). (various references) | |
Turkish | muhallebi çocuğu (cissy, jellyfish, mollycoddle, sissy, tenderfoot), lâpacı, korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | легкодуха людина (nincompoop). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người hèn yếu, bánh nhúng v o sữa người nhút nhát. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | cokenei. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "milksop": milksops. (additional references) | |
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"Milksop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maikop, melkrom, milko, milksi, Millsom, millsop. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-l-m-o-p-s" | |
-2 letters: kilos, limos, limps, milks, milos, moils, polis, skimo, skimp, spoil. | |
-3 letters: ilks, imps, kilo, kips, kois, kops, limo, limp, lips, lisp, lops, milk, milo, mils, miso, moil, mols, mops, mosk, oils, piso, pois, pols, poms, silk, silo, simp, skim, skip, slim, slip, slop, soil, soli, spik. | |
-4 letters: ilk, imp, ism, kip, koi, kop. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-l-m-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: milksops. | |
+4 letters: lymphokines. | |
+5 letters: hypokalemias, kleptomanias. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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