PAMPER

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

Verb

pamper (third-person singular simple present pampers, present participle pampering, simple past and past participle pampered)

(transitive) To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.

(dated) To feed luxuriously.

Synonyms

• (treat with indulgence): coddle, spoil; see also pamper

Anagrams

• mapper, pampre, pre-amp, preamp

Source: Wiktionary


Pam"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pampering.] Etym: [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.]

1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered for corruption." Dr. T. Dwight.

2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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