FEATHERBED

featherbed

(verb) hire more workers than are necessary

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

Etymology

Noun

featherbed (plural featherbeds)

A mattress stuffed with feathers.

(UK, Dartmoor) A bog covered by a layer of moss, presenting a hazard to walkers.

Verb

featherbed (third-person singular simple present featherbeds, present participle featherbedding, simple past and past participle featherbedded)

(transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.

Source: Wiktionary

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