In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
FEATHERBEDDED
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
Verb
featherbedded
simple past tense and past participle of featherbed
Source: Wiktionary
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BODILY
(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”
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