What is the difference between mollycoddle and protect?
mollycoddle | protect |
A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
* 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.
* 1904 , Sabine Baring-Gould,
* 2012 , The Economist, Oct 13th 2012,
To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
, magazine=
As verbs the difference between mollycoddle and protect
is that mollycoddle is to be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper while protect is to keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.As a noun mollycoddle
is a person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.mollycoddle
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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)- 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.
Policy prescriptions: A True Progressivism
- Rich countries also need more competition in traditionally mollycoddled sectors such as education.
protect
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
