mollycoddle

Other forms of mollycoddle

plural

mollycoddles·

past tense

mollycoddled·

present participle

mollycoddling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mollycoddle

What does mollycoddle mean?

mollycoddle means "a pampered darling; an effeminate man". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mollycoddle?

mollycoddle has 4 syllables: mol-ly-cod-dle. The stress falls on "mol". In IPA it is /ˈmɑliˌkɑdəl/.

What is another word for mollycoddle?

Close synonyms include pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mollycoddle a common word?

mollycoddle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mollycoddle?

2 words rhyme with mollycoddle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.