coddle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To treat gently or with great care.
To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.

noun

An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
An effeminate person.

/ˈkɒd.əl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-coddle.wav /ˈkɑ.dəl/ /ˈkɔd.əl/

coddle coddles coddling coddled

Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.

pamper posset spoil cosset simmer

scald

coddled egg coddler coddlesome coddlingly mollycoddle overcoddle

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