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Flubdub vs Mollycoddle - What's the difference?

flubdub | mollycoddle |

As nouns the difference between flubdub and mollycoddle

is that flubdub is a buffoon while mollycoddle is a person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.

As a verb mollycoddle is

to be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.

flubdub

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A buffoon.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1897, author=, title=Lin McLean, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I told Mr. Perkins I wasn't a-going to, an' he--I think he is a flubdub anyway." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=, title=The Holy Cross and Other Tales, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Rumpty-tumpty, pimplety-pan-- The flubdub' courted a catamaran But timplety-topplety, timpity-tare-- The ' flubdub wedded the big blue bear! }}
  • Trivial matters; nonsense.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Samuel G. Blythe, title=The Fun of Getting Thin, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I have no mission or message or any flubdub of that kind. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1915, author=, title=The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Only they sent the father to the Senate and gave him columns of flubdub and laid him out in state when he died--and they poured kerosene upon the son and burned him alive. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=, title=The Precipice, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Sorrow came to her afterward, disappointment, struggle, but never so heavy and dragging a pain as she knew that Christmas Day. She had been trying in many unsuspected ways to relieve her father's grim misery,--a misery of which his gaunt face told the tale,--and although he had said that he wished for "no flubdub about Christmas," she really could not resist making some recognition of a day which found all other homes happy. }}

    mollycoddle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
  • * 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
    • No matter what pacifist "flubdubs and flapdoodle mollycoddles " might say, the President [Teddy Roosevelt] knew that if there were a general war then America could well be drawn into it.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.
  • * 1904 , Sabine Baring-Gould,
    • Heerendorp by this means obtained an evil notoriety, and it was ordered to be burnt, and the women of Jacob's family to be transferred to a concentration camp where they would be mollycoddled at the expense of the English taxpayer.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, Oct 13th 2012, Policy prescriptions: A True Progressivism
    • Rich countries also need more competition in traditionally mollycoddled sectors such as education.