pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
(verb) treat with excessive indulgence; “grandparents often pamper the children”; “Let’s not mollycoddle our students!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
babied
simple past tense and past participle of baby
babied (comparative more babied, superlative most babied)
Spoiled or coddled.
Source: Wiktionary
Ba"by, n.; pl. Babies. Etym: [Dim. of babe]
Definition: An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
2. A small image of an infant; a doll. Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.
Ba"by, a.
Definition: Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans. "Baby figure" Shak.
Ba"by, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Babied (p. pr. & vb. n.Babying.]
Definition: To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle. Young.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
