Brewer's: Molly Coddle

(A). 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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