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Coddler vs Coddled - What's the difference?

coddler | coddled |

As a noun coddler

is one who coddles (treats with excess care).

As a verb coddled is

past tense of coddle.

coddler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who coddles (treats with excess care).
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    coddled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (coddle)

    • 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.