featherbed

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A mattress stuffed with feathers.
2. noun An area of bog where a layer of moss covers a pool of water or mud, presenting a hazard to walkers who may fall through it.
3. noun A soft, slow pitch of predictable bounce.
4. verb To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.
5. verb To engage in featherbedding; to employ more workers than necessary to fulfill a labor union requirement.

Similar words

feather bed cocker spoil baby cosset coddle mollycoddle pamper indulge strawbed

Often followed by

and lane alley moss of in bank to with

Word family

featherbedded featherbedding featherbeds