Cuddled vs Coddled - What's the difference?
cuddled | coddled |
(cuddle)
To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly.
To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.
To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
* Prior
(coddle)
To treat gently or with great care.
* 1855 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Newcomes) , chapter 10 “Ethel and her Relations” (
* Southey:
To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
* 1697 , (William Dampier), A New Voyage Round the World , volume 1,
To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
As verbs the difference between cuddled and coddled
is that cuddled is past tense of cuddle while coddled is past tense of coddle.cuddled
English
Verb
(head)cuddle
English
Verb
- The young lovers cuddled on the couch.
- She cuddled the infant before bedtime.
- I'm cold; can you roll over here and cuddle me, honey?
- She cuddles low beneath the brake; / Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.
Derived terms
* cuddlable * cuddler * cuddlesome * cuddle up * cuddlycoddled
English
Verb
(head)coddle
English
(wikipedia coddle)Verb
(coddl)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?
- He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation.
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.