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/kˈɑdəl/ Listen

verb

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

To parboil, or soften by boiling. "It (the guava fruit) may be coddled."

To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper. "How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas!" "He (Lord Byron) never coddled his reputation."

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Etymology of 'Coddle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... discipline that was to be put in force here—no rocking, no getting up at night to coddle a ...

— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser

... am I to do, my boy—coddle you up, and keep you always under my eye; or give you a little latitude, and trust to your discretion to take care of yourself ...

— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn

... contingencies, such as the loss of the queen with no eggs in the royal cells, the workers take the larva of an ordinary bee, enlarge the cell by taking in the two adjoining ones, and nurse it and stuff it and coddle it, till at the end of sixteen days it comes out a queen. But ordinarily, in the natural course of events, the young queen is kept a prisoner in her cell till the old queen has left with the swarm. Not only kept, but guarded against the mother queen, who only wants an opportunity to ...

— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks

... moments, Theodora had pictured Cicely as a dainty, clinging little maiden who would cajole and coddle Allyn out of his unfriendly moods. Cicely certainly did rouse Allyn from those moods; but it was by no process of feminine cajolery. She went at him, as the phrase is, hammer and tongs. Good-tempered herself, she demanded good temper from him. Failing that, ...

— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray

... love the jolly rattle Of an orde-al by battle, There's an end of tittle-tattle When your enemy is dead. It's an arrant molly-coddle Fears a crack upon his noddle And he's only fit to swaddle ...

— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

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