Foundle vs Coddle - What's the difference?
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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.
Foundle is a related term of coddle.
As a verb coddle is
to treat gently or with great care.As a noun coddle is
an irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.foundle
Not English
Foundle has no English definition. It may be misspelled.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.
