coddle
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coddle
- /ˈkɒd.əl/ UK
- /ˈkɑ.dəl/ US
- /ˈkɔd.əl/ Australia
Rhymes with -ɒdəl
Where it comes from
Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.
verb coddles · coddling · coddled
- To treat gently or with great care. 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, an
- To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point. a coddled egg
- To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
noun coddles
- An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
- An effeminate person.
