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Coddle

verb

(past & past part. coddled; pres. part. coddling) (Written also codle)

Treat with excessive indulgence. Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil. "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

Cook in nearly boiling water.

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"Coddle" Quotes from Famous Books

... pleased in a way than if he had come back rich. He might have wanted to take me away or build a fine house, and I'm too old to be making changes. And then he wouldn't have needed me. I'd have been of no use to him. As it is, it's just me he needs to look after him and coddle him. Oh, it's fine to have somebody to do things for, somebody that belongs to you. I was just dreading the loneliness of the winter, and now it's going to be such a happy winter. I declare last night ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... she said brokenly. "I ache for you, dear; but I understand! I have parted with a child of my own—not for a few years, but for ever, till we meet again in God's heaven. I'll help you every way I can. I'll watch her night and day; I'll coddle her when she's ill; I'll try to make her a good woman. I'll love her, dear, and she shall be my own special charge. I'll be ...

— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey

... I've got my reputation to think about. I don't want to coddle it, but there's no harm in just keeping ...

— The Great Adventure • Arnold Bennett

... indignantly, "you don't suppose that my father was going to coddle me as he might do one of the girls here. You know he has promised that I shall soon enter the Carthaginian guard, and fight in the next campaign. I think it has been very hard on me not to have had a chance of distinguishing myself as my cousin Hannibal ...

— The Young Carthaginian - A Story of The Times of Hannibal • G.A. Henty

... is to shield the child,—to hedge it about that it may not know and will not dream of the color line. Then when we can no longer wholly shield, to indulge and pamper and coddle, as though in this dumb way to compensate. From this attitude comes the multitude of our spoiled, wayward, disappointed children. And must we not blame ourselves? For while the motive was pure and the outer menace ...

— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

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