Mollycoddle vs Coddle - What's the difference?
mollycoddle | coddle |
A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
* 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.
* 1904 , Sabine Baring-Gould,
* 2012 , The Economist, Oct 13th 2012,
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.
Coddle is a derived term of mollycoddle.
Coddle is a synonym of mollycoddle.
In transitive terms the difference between mollycoddle and coddle
is that mollycoddle is to be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper while coddle is to exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.mollycoddle
English
Noun
(en noun)- No matter what pacifist "flubdubs and flapdoodle mollycoddles " might say, the President [Teddy Roosevelt] knew that if there were a general war then America could well be drawn into it.
Verb
(en-verb)- Heerendorp by this means obtained an evil notoriety, and it was ordered to be burnt, and the women of Jacob's family to be transferred to a concentration camp where they would be mollycoddled at the expense of the English taxpayer.
Policy prescriptions: A True Progressivism
- Rich countries also need more competition in traditionally mollycoddled sectors such as education.
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.
