Coddle vs Noddle - What's the difference?
coddle | noddle |
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.
(UK, informal) the head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
(UK, informal) the head; the seat of mental capacity or intellect
(obsolete) the back of the head, nape.
As nouns the difference between coddle and noddle
is that coddle is an irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions while noddle is (uk|informal) the head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.As a verb coddle
is to treat gently or with great care.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.