coddle
(verb) cook in nearly boiling water; “coddle eggs”
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
coddle (third-person singular simple present coddles, present participle coddling, simple past and past participle coddled)
(transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
(transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
(transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
• (treat gently): cosset, pamper, posset, spoil; see also pamper
• (cook slowly): simmer
coddle (plural coddles)
An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
(archaic) An effeminate person.
• codled
Source: Wiktionary
Cod"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Coddling.] Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. caddle to coax, spoil, fondle, and Cade, a. & v. t.] [Written also codle.]
1. To parboil, or soften by boiling. It [the guava fruit] may be coddled. Dampier.
2. To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper. How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas! Thackeray. He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. Southey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
