mollycoddling

English

Verb

mollycoddling

1. present participle and gerund of mollycoddle

Noun

mollycoddling (countable and uncountable, plural mollycoddlings)

1. An act of excessive pampering.
   • 2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema:

     Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.