mollycoddling

English

Verb

mollycoddling

  1. present participle and gerund of mollycoddle

Noun

mollycoddling (countable and uncountable, plural mollycoddlings)

  1. An act of excessive pampering.
    • 2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema:
      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.
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