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Featherbed vs Feathered - What's the difference?

featherbed | feathered |

As verbs the difference between featherbed and feathered

is that featherbed is to treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle while feathered is past tense of feather.

As a noun featherbed

is a mattress stuffed with feathers.

As an adjective feathered is

covered with feathers.

featherbed

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mattress stuffed with feathers

    • Alternative forms

    * feather bed

    Verb

    (featherbedd)
  • (label) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle

    • Alternative forms

    * feather-bed

    feathered

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • covered with feathers
  • (rowing) having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion
  • (engineering, manufacturing) of a finely bevelled edge
  • (Appalachian) badly beaten

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (feather)