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verb
[with object] treat (someone) in an indulgent or overprotective way: I found school very difficult, and realized I’d been mollycoddled at home (as noun mollycoddling)he was getting too old for such mollycoddling
noun
an effeminate or ineffectual man or boy: baseball is a game for red-blooded men and mollycoddles better stay out of it