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JohnKleeb

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:18 PM
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I have a question about cotting

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benito

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:24 PM
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1. or maybe even mollycoddling

It’s sometimes said that the molly in mollycoddle comes from the sense of a prostitute, but the usage evidence shows that it was really linked to the gay associations. As a noun, it was used particularly of a man who had been over-protected in childhood and so considered to have been made into a milksop or effeminate. For example, William Makepeace Thackeray wrote in Pendennis in 1849: “You have been bred up as a molly-coddle, Pen, and spoilt by the women”. The verb came along later in the nineteenth century and was used more like the way we do now.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mol1.htm

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GreenPartyVoter

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Thu Nov-11-04 11:27 PM
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2. Molly is also Irish for Nanny or Nursemaid. That's another

take on what "molly-coddling" is.

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