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Mollycoddled vs Mollycoddler - What's the difference?

mollycoddled | mollycoddler |

As a verb mollycoddled

is past tense of mollycoddle.

As a noun mollycoddler is

one who mollycoddles.

mollycoddled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mollycoddle)

    • 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.

    mollycoddler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who mollycoddles.