coddle

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To treat gently or with great care.
2. verb To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.

   a coddled egg

3. verb To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
4. noun An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
5. noun An effeminate person.

Similar words

cosset mollycoddle pamper indulge baby spoil featherbed cocker molly maintain

Often followed by

the him them and her me you their a

Word family

coddled coddler coddlers coddles coddling