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单词 mollycoddler
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mollycoddlern.

Brit. /ˈmɒlɪˌkɒdl̩ə/, U.S. /ˈmɑliˌkɑd(ə)lər/
Forms: 1800s– mollycoddler, 1900s– molly coddler.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mollycoddle v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < mollycoddle v. + -er suffix1.
A person who mollycoddles another.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > care for or looking after > excessive care or protection > one who gives
mollycoddler1863
1863 A. J. Munby Diary 31 Aug. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 172 It keeps up a wholesome protest against the Mollycoddlers, to see a whole countryful of stout lasses devoted to field-labour only.
1933 J. Cary Amer. Visitor 213 Minnie was a molly coddler, in Bewsher's phrase, and liked to take temperatures.
2000 Spokesman–Rev. (Spokane, Washington) (Nexis) 15 June b6 Rather than outlaw the death penalty, as the mollycoddlers would have us do, why don't we recast first-degree murder?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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