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
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
