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milquetoast
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun milquetoast has 1 sense
- milquetoast(n = noun.person) milksop, pansy, pantywaist, sissy - a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive; Array is a kind of coward
CIDE DICTIONARY
milquetoast, n. [From Caspar Milquetoast, a character in a cartoon strip by H. T. Webster, The Timid Soul (1935).].
a timid, unassertive man or boy fearful of confrontation and easily manipulated and dominated. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
milquetoast
baby, big baby, chicken, chicken liver, coward, crybaby, doormat, dull tool, fence-sitter, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, gutless wonder, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, lily liver, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, mouse, mugwump, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, sissy, softling, softy, sop, waverer, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white liver, wobbler
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