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Gentle vs Coddling - What's the difference?

gentle | coddling |

As verbs the difference between gentle and coddling

is that gentle is to become gentle while coddling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between gentle and coddling

is that gentle is a person of high birth while coddling is the act of one who coddles or pampers.

As an adjective gentle

is tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.

gentle

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
  • Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
  • Docile and easily managed.
    • a gentle horse
  • Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
  • Polite and respectful rather than rude.
  • (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
  • * Johnson's Cyc.
    • British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle , or simple.
  • * Milton
    • the studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time

    Synonyms

    * (polite) friendly, kind, polite, respectful

    Antonyms

    * (polite) rude

    Derived terms

    * gentle craft * gentleness * gentleman * gentlewoman * gently

    Verb

    (gentl)
  • to become gentle (rfex)
  • to ennoble (rfex)
  • (animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate (rfex)
  • To soothe; to calm. (rfex)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A person of high birth.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Gentles , methinks you frown.
  • (archaic) A maggot used as bait by anglers (rfex)
  • A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.

    • 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.