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Coddle vs Coddling - What's the difference?

coddle | coddling |

As verbs the difference between coddle and coddling

is that coddle is to treat gently or with great care while coddling is .

As nouns the difference between coddle and coddling

is that coddle is an irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions while coddling is the act of one who coddles or pampers.

coddle

English

(wikipedia coddle)

Verb

(coddl)
  • To treat gently or with great care.
  • * 1855 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Newcomes) , chapter 10 “Ethel and her Relations” ( ebook):
    • 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?
  • * Southey:
    • He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation.
  • To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
  • * 1697 , (William Dampier), A New Voyage Round the World , volume 1, page 222 of 1699 edition:
    • It [the guava fruit] bakes as well as a Pear, and it may be coddled , and it makes good Pies.
  • To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.

    • Synonyms

    * (treat gently) cosset, pamper, posset, spoil * (cook slowly) simmer

    Derived terms

    * mollycoddle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.

    • coddling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who coddles or pampers.
  • * 1871 , Kate Neely Hill Festetits, Actions speak louder than words
    • It was associated, to them, with vague sweet memories of loving nestlings in mother's arms, of soft warm coddlings before the fire, of slow rocking to and fro in the little, low, flag chair, and gradual droppings off to sleep
  • (type of apple)
  • * 1791 , Mrs. Frazer, The Practice of Cookery, Pastry, Pickling, Preserving, &c
    • Take the large coddlings , or any other hard green apple, newly pulled; cut them in quarters, and cut out the core
  • * 2006 , Michael Moorcock, The Vengeance of Rome
    • Afterwards, when we had all pulled crackers and donned fancy hats and paper masks, we were served with our choice of plum puddings or hot coddlings , mince pies or pumpkin tart.