PAMPERING

pampering

(adjective) gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires; “pampering parents often have spoilt children”; “a very pampering cruise experience”

indulgence, indulging, pampering, humoring

(noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

pampering

present participle of pamper

Noun

pampering (plural pamperings)

The act by which somebody is pampered.

Anagrams

• preamping, remapping

Source: Wiktionary


PAMPER

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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