Verb

(head)

(pamper)

Verb

(en verb)

To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}

(dated) To feed luxuriously.

Verb

(head)

(coddle)

Verb

(coddl)

To treat gently or with great care.

* 1855 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Newcomes) , chapter 10 “Ethel and her Relations” ( 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?

* Southey:

He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation.

To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.

* 1697 , (William Dampier), A New Voyage Round the World , volume 1, 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.

To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.