Mollycoddle vs Featherbed - What's the difference?
mollycoddle | featherbed |
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,
(label) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle
In transitive terms the difference between mollycoddle and featherbed
is that mollycoddle is to be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper while featherbed is to treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.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.
