mollycoddling

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noun

An act of excessive pampering.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of mollycoddle
nounmollycoddling (countable and uncountable, plural mollycoddlings)

plural mollycoddlings

  1. countableuncountableAn act of excessive pampering.

    Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.

    2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema
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APA

mollycoddling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mollycoddling

MLA

“mollycoddling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mollycoddling. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mollycoddling,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mollycoddling.

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