Coddle

Quick meaning: Coddle is a verb meaning (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.

Meaning

(transitive) To treat gently or with great care.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
2. (transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
3. An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
4. (archaic) An effeminate person.

Example Sentences

a coddled egg

It [the guava fruit] bakes as well as a Pear, and it may be coddled, and it makes good Pies.

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?

Word Forms

• coddles
• coddling
• coddled

Synonyms for coddle

Depending on context, synonyms include cosset, pamper, posset, spoil, simmer, indulge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cosset, mollycoddle, pamper, indulge, baby, spoil.

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