- 1軟腳蝦；沒種、膽小怕事的男人（舊時罵人話）
A milksop is a boy or man whom other people call too soft: gentle in a way that sounds like weakness, afraid of anything hard or dangerous, easy to push around. The picture behind the word is bread dropped in milk until it goes — food for a baby or a sick person, not for a fighter. It is an old, insult, aimed at males. Young people almost never say it; they would say wimp or coward, or something ruder. You will meet it in older novels more than in the street. It is , and it is about character, not about liking milk.
組成From Middle English: milk + sop (bread soaked in liquid; also, to soak).
同家族的字
- milkthe first half — the liquid the bread sits in
- sopthe second half — bread soaked in liquid, and the idea of something soft and wet
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milksopnoun/ˈmɪlkˌsɒp/
- 1
A piece of bread sopped in milk.
- 2
A dish consisting of bread pieces in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and covered in hot milk.
- 3
derogatoryAn easily frightened, ineffectual, or weak person.
- And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey fellovv,? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: […]
- “That milksop of a creature pretend to be worthy of such a woman as Mrs. Pendennis,” broke out the Doctor: “where will impudence stop next!”
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