or Miss Molly, molly-coddle, subs. (common).—1. An effeminate person; a MILK-SOP (q.v.).
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1849. THACKERAY, Pendennis, xxxi. You have been bred up as a MOLLY-CODDLE, Pen, and spoilt by the women.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
1860. G. ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss, ix. Such a thin-legged silly fellow as his uncle Pellet—a MOLLY-CODDLE in fact.
1864. HAMILTON AÏDÉ, Mr. & Mrs. Faulconbridge, I. 271. You young men now are such a set of MOLLYCODDLES.
1883. Daily News, 2 July, p. 5, col. 2. Attempts are sometimes made to dismiss as MOLLY-CODDLES those who protest against the mania for indiscriminate mountaineering.
2. (old).—A prostitute; a MOLL (q.v.). For synonyms, see BARRACK-HACK and TART.
1719. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, i. 5.
| Town follies and Cullies, | |
| And MOLLEYS and Dolleys. |
3. (old).—A sodomite; a MARY-ANN (q.v.).—GROSE (1785).
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
4. (old).—A country wench.
