adj. (common).Effeminate. Also MOLLYISH.
1801. DIBDIN, The Frisk, Jack at the Opera.
For they pipe and they squeal, now slow, now aloft; | |
If it warnt for the petticoat gear, | |
With their squeaking, so MOLLYISH, tender, and soft, | |
One should scarcely know maam from mounseer. |
1883. Referee, 25 March, 7, 4. I daresay to make even such remarks as I have is only the sign of a MOLLY-CODDLISH mind.