Detmar is the sort of chap who would once have been described as a milksop; when Issie met him in 1988 he was 25, but so close to his mother he used to shop for her sanitary towels. ❋ Rachel Cooke (2010)
But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could outride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him; who could drive the four horses of his coach to London and back at such a pace and in such a manner as made purple-faced old stage-coach drivers shake their heads with glee, and who, in a wrestling-match, could break a man's back at a throw if he chose to be unmerciful. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
Suckling is a nickname applied to a helpless person; cf. Littlechild and "milksop," which still exists, though rare, in the forms Milsopp and Mellsop. ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)
Riley called him "milksop," and "sap-head"; words which seemed to the dull intellect of King Pewee exceedingly witty. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me, "milksop" and ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me "milksop" and "boarding-school miss," and soon made me as bad as themselves. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
And Giles had always thought it rather far-fetched that a milksop like Desmond would have committed cold-blooded murder. ❋ Deborah Gonzales (2011)
It's clear from the outset that Myra is quite mad, and even when the source of her madness is revealed, it doesn't make one feel any more sympathy for her, or for her milksop of a husband. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2011)
One way of ensuring that didn't happen was to put God – not some milksop supreme being but a proper, stormy God – back into buildings. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Why then is the News a milksop and apologist for the New York City Police Department? ❋ Len Levitt (2010)
His face fell at that, so I cheered him up with a few tales of my own desperate deeds in Afghanistan and elsewhere, just to remind him that a cautious campaigner isn't necessarily a milksop. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)
I am no milksop farmwife to be cast aside: I am the sovereign Duchess of Aquitaine, and I will be deferred to as such! ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bad-boy network Comedy Central, which has been looking more like a milksop in a little Lord Fauntleroy suit since it censoring episodes of "South Park" last April, got a much-needed jolt of cred restoration Thursday when some conservative leaders got their panties in such a bunch about a new show it has in development they staged a news conference. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He is made up to look mild-mannered, almost insipid, and he plays George as a spiteful milksop given to passive-aggressive sniping who loses control of himself for the first time in his life and turns into a terrifyingly vengeful demon at one point in the third act he gives the uncanny illusion of growing taller before your eyes. ❋ Terry Teachout (2010)
During our decades-long addiction to overwork and underpayment in the vain pursuit of champagne wishes and caviar dreams, art has been branded as a milksop conceit, one which elicits smirks and is deemed wholly unnecessary to the betterment of society by the macho tough guys who epitomize the Gordon Gecko "greed is good" credo. ❋ Unknown (2009)
After all, who wants to study national security policy with a milksop? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Offended by the exits of their milksop enemies they gained revenge at the end by roaring defiant appreciation through the closing credits. ❋ Unknown (2007)
[mr].engasser is a milksop. ❋ Lilhaze (2006)
Jake is such a pathetic cringing little milksop it [ain't even] funny -- the [little bitch] whines about anything and everything. He is truly an [oxygen thief]. ❋ Telephony (2011)
