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Words to describe people



This week's words

lickspittle

tosspot

milksop

hayseed

gadabout



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milksop PRONUNCIATION: (MILK-sop)

MEANING: noun: One who is timid or indecisive.

ETYMOLOGY: A milksop is, literally, a piece of bread soaked in milk, a diet considered suitable for babies and the sick. A synonym of this term is milquetoast . Earliest documented use: 1390.

USAGE: "This is for the milksop who does not want a mouse in the house but is too timid or pious to do anything about it."

Nicholas Lezard; Down and Out; New Statesman (London, UK); Mar 27, 2013.

See more usage examples of milksop in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops -- no, but the kind of man the country turns out. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist (1803-1882)





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