coddled

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coddled

adjective

Pampered; overprotected and/or overindulged. The "coddled" prisoner has been the subject of more newspaper editorials, and more discussion by the general public than almost any other phase of our criminal problem.
Stewed or simmered. In the first menu the veal needs about an hour and a half's cooking; the potatoes an hour's; the coddled pears two hours'; the sponge caked twenty minutes' and the oysters ten minutes'.

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of coddle

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@misc{coddled_2026,
  title = {coddled},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coddled},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}