Part of speech: Noun
a pampered darling; an effeminate man
Categories: Darling, Favorite, Favourite, Pet, Dearie, Deary, Ducky
Featherbed, Indulge, Cocker, Mollycoddle, Cosset
molly – A related word in the same word family.
coddle – A related word in the same word family.
Some English words are 'fossil words'—they only survive in idioms or fixed phrases.