milksop

noun

1. a weak or ineffectual person.

noun

1. a feeble or ineffectual man or youth
2. British a dish of bread soaked in warm milk, given esp to infants and invalids

n.“effeminate spiritless man,” late 14c., attested as a (fictional) surname mid-13c.; also applied in Middle English to the infant Christ. Literal sense “piece of bread soaked in milk” attested late 15c.; see milk (n.) + sop (n.).