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Molly Coddle (A)

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A pampered creature, afraid that the winds of heaven should visit him too roughly; though a male, a Molly; not a valetudinarian, but ever fearing lest he should be so.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Mohyronus (Edricius)
Moiré Antique (French)
Mokanna
Molière
Molinism
Moll (Kentish)
Moll Cutpurse
Moll Flanders
Moll Thomson’s Mark
Molly
Molly Coddle (A)
Molly Maguires
Molly Mog
Molmutius
Moloch
Moly
Mome (French)
Momiers (French, men of mummery)
Mommur
Momus
Momus’s Lattice or Window