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coddle
English
Etymology
Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?d?l/
- Rhymes: -?d?l
Verb
coddle (third-person singular simple present coddles, present participle coddling, simple past and past participle coddled)
- (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
- 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, chapter 10 “Ethel and her Relations” (ebook):
- How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?
- 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, chapter 10 “Ethel and her Relations” (ebook):
- (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
- 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World, volume 1, page 222 of 1699 edition:
- It [the guava fruit] bakes as well as a Pear, and it may be coddled, and it makes good Pies.
- 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World, volume 1, page 222 of 1699 edition:
- (transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
Synonyms
- (treat gently): cosset, pamper, posset, spoil; see also Thesaurus:pamper
- (cook slowly): simmer
Derived terms
- coddled egg
- mollycoddle
Related terms
- scald
Translations
Noun
coddle (plural coddles)
- An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
- (archaic) An effeminate person.
Anagrams
- codled
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coddler
English
Etymology
coddle +? -er
Noun
coddler (plural coddlers)
- One who coddles (treats with excess care).
- (cooking) A device used to make coddled eggs by cooking them gently.
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