You see, at heart he was a slow-coach, a milksop, nothing of the man of the world about him.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Andrew hoped that he wouldn't be spoiled, and made into a milksop, and suggested that he ought to be taught a useful trade as soon as possible.
"A Vanished Hand"
Sarah Doudney
"But there; what a milksop I am; crying like a great girl, I declare, when I ought to shout hooray!
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn