A pampered darling; an effeminate man.

Roget 374: woman, she, her, female, petticoat.    feminality^†, muliebrity^†; womanhood etc. (adolescence) 131.    womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel.    dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs.    lady, donna belle [Sp.], matron, dowager, goody, gammer^†; Frau [G.], frow^†, Vrouw [Du.], rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife etc. (marriage) 903; matronage, matronhood^†.    bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist.    nymph, wench, grisette^†; girl etc. (youth) 129.    [Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean^†, henhussy^†, mollycoddle, muff, old woman.    [Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.    gynecaeum^†.    estrogen, oestrogen.    consanguinity etc. 166 [Female relatives], paternity etc. 11.    lesbian, dyke [Slang].    ... show more

Roget 158: impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity^†; indocility^†; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness.    telum imbelle [Lat.], brutum fulmen [Lat.], blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil [Lat.], dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun.    inefficacy etc. (inutility) 645^†; failure etc. 732.    helplessness etc. adj.; prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration^†, deliquium [Lat.], collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy [Med.], orchotomy [Med.].    cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch.    ... show more

Treat with excessive indulgence:
— Let's not mollycoddle our students!.

synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil.

Dutch: vertroetelen, verwennen