Milksop

['mɪlksɒp] or ['mɪlksɑp]

(n.) A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.

編輯:韦斯利

n. [1]. Piece of bread sopped in milk.[2]. Poltroon, craven, dastard, coward, effeminate man.

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The penniless Colonel became quite obsequious and respectful to the head of his house, and despised the milksop Pitt no longer. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
I could have told her you'd never put up with such a little milksop! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
And that Methodist milksop of an eldest son looks to Parliament, continued Mr. Crawley, after a pause. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
He thought Jos a milksop. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
She disliked her elder nephew exceedingly, and despised him as a milksop. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
He was a little wild: how many young men are; and don't girls like a rake better than a milksop? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.

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