† coddlen.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: coddle v.²

Etymology: < coddle v.² Slightly earlier currency is probably implied by moll-coddle n. Compare also the 18th-cent. nickname Molly Coddle (see mollycoddle n.), although that may be formed directly from the verb. N.E.D. (1891) gives the pronunciation as (kǫ·d'l) /ˈkɒd(ə)l/.

colloquial. Obsolete.

1. A person who is coddled or mollycoddled, or who coddles himself or herself; a person who is pampered or soft. Cf. mollycoddle n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > one who is coddled

coddlea1816

a1816 G. Hardinge Misc. Wks. (1818) II. 352 He..kept a mistress in a wood..; In other points affection's model, Till Mrs. Puss became a coddle.

1848 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds iii. iii The town Will pronounce you a mammy-sick coddle.

1907 Cassell's Mag. Aug. 299/1 Phyllis..was a thorough out-of-doors girl... ‘What a coddle you are, mother,’ the girl said.

2. A person who coddles others; (sometimes also) a fusspot, a busybody. Cf. coddler n.¹

ΚΠ

1827 A. Woodrooffe Michael II. 424 At first, these peculiarities were wearisome, ‘Master was a coddle, master was putting his finger into every thing.’

1840 E. Pickering Quiet Husband I. vi. 196 Mrs. Ashton is considered a fidget and a coddle.

1885 Lamp June 282/2 ‘I will shut them [sc. the windows] now.’ ‘Oh, papa, what a coddle you are!’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020).

coddlen.²

Brit.

/ˈkɒdl/, U.S.

/ˈkɑd(ə)l/, Irish English

/ˈkɑdl/

Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: coddle v.¹

Etymology: Probably < coddle v.¹

Irish English.

A stew of meat and vegetables, typically bacon, sausages, potatoes, and onions. Now often in Dublin coddle.It is unclear whether quot. 1939 implies currency of this word.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > stewed meat

stewpot1542

estew1566

fricassee1568

ragout1652

pepperpot1698

grenade1706

haricot1706

pupton1706

lobscouse1707

stew1756

puchero1802

granada1806

bredie1815

muddle1833

scouse1840

slum1847

hashmagandy1851

ropa vieja1855

chilli con carne1857

sorpotel1863

goulash1866

daube1877

paprikash1877

chilli1886

pot-pie1890

slumgullion1902

cholent1903

cracker-hash1904

cracker-stew1909

gippo1914

waterzooi1915

Fanny Adams1921

adobo1938

cassoulet1940

feijoada1941

coddle1942

stifado1950

rancho1957

tinga1964

1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) iv. 593 Cuddle up in a coddlepot.]

1942 M. Laverty Never no More iv. 40 On washing days we always had coddle for dinner.

2001 B. Cullen It's Long Way from Penny Apples (2003) ix. 88 Is that a pot of coddle I smell in the fireplace? Because if it is, there's nothing I'd like better than a bit of Dublin coddle.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

coddlev.¹

Brit.

/ˈkɒdl/, U.S.

/ˈkɑd(ə)l/

Forms:

α. 1600s coddel, 1600s codle, 1600s– coddle.

β. 1600s quaddle, 1600s quadle, 1600s quoddle, 1600s quodle; English regional 1700s–1900s quaddle, 1800s quoddle.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or perhaps (ii) formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: caudle v.¹; caudle n.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a variant of caudle v.¹ (compare coddle v.²), or perhaps < an unattested variant of caudle n. With sense 2 compare caudle n. a; with sense 1 perhaps compare the sense ‘trick, prank’ that is attested for the Middle French etymon of caudle n. (but not for the English noun itself).

1. transitive. To addle, befuddle (a person's brain, wits, etc.).Probably a figurative use of sense 2, although attested slightly earlier.Quot. 1804 may instead show coddle v.², or may pun on the two words.

ΚΠ

1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. K2 He is tane from Grammar-schoole halfe codled.

a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1652) 37 If your coxcomes [i.e. heads] you would Quoddle, Here buy Braines to fill your noddle.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xix. 233 Green wits not yet halfe coddled as it were.

1804 Morning Chron. 31 Oct. Look well to your noddle; With all due care and pains, This case of your brains, In a good, warm, Welch wig you must coddle.

2001 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 2 Dec. 9 All that sitting on the bench at Anfield must have coddled the Fowler brain.

2. transitive. To boil (esp. fruit) gently; to parboil, stew. In later use also: to cook (an egg) in water held just below boiling point.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > boil > boil partially or gently

parboil1381

leepa1522

coddle1616

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. ii, in Wks. I. 9 Taking in all the yong wenches, that passe by,..and codd'ling euery kernell of the fruit for 'hem.

1617 J. Murrell Daily Exercise for Ladies & Gentlewomen sig. C Gather greene Pippins..; quoddle them in two seuerall waters.

a1746 M. Leapor Poems upon Several Occasions (1751) II. 69 She..Will coddle Apples nice and green, And fry her Pancakes—like a Queen.

1760 C. Hervey Let. 13 July in Lett. from Portugal, Spain, Italy & Germany (1785) II. lx. 339 Their officer..by his affability was making up for his want of delicacy in house and fare, which was plain meat coddled in the English manner.

1807 M. E. Rundell New Syst. Domest. Cookery (ed. 2) vii. 247 Pippin Pudding... Coddle six pippins in vine leaves covered with water [etc.].

1894 Good Housek. June 285/2 Eggs for the sick should be coddled instead of boiled.

1915 Farmer's Advocate & Home Jrnl. (Winnipeg) 22 Sept. 1157/1 The women in the country..know far better than the demonstrator how to coddle apples and the various ways in which potatoes may be cooked.

2015 Canberra Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 23 Feb. (Final ed.) a15 For the dressing, gently coddle the eggs by adding them to boiling water for one minute.

3. transitive. English regional (northern). To roast (apples, peas, etc.) in the oven. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Coddle, to roast fruit, etc., as apples, and shelled beans. When the latter crack, they are coddled.

1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Coddle, to cook certain kinds of food in the oven in place of boiling.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 48 When apples are roasted in the oven they are said to be coddled.

2002 A. Kellett Yorks. Dict. (ed. 2) Coddle,..to roast.

Derivatives

ˈcoddled adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > boiling or boiled > partially boiling or boiled

parboilinga1450

parboiled1559

coddled1621

1621 J. Andrews Brazen Serpent To Rdr. sig. A4 Vulgar and halfe-coddled Iudgements.

a1668 W. Davenant Distresses ii. i, in Wks. (1673) iii. 41/2 Soft All over, as a quodled Apple.

1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd II. July 13 I will suppose [such imperfect Malt] to consist of one third Part good Malt..and a third Part of all steely Malt, or Barley-kernels; or, to write plainer, of coddled, or roasted Barley.

1818 Gentleman's Mag. 88 i. 160/2 Place the flowers in scalding water..then cut off the coddled end of the stems.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 48 Coddled peas, are peas cooked like chestnuts. They are put into a tin and stewed in a hot oven.

2018 Welland (Ont.) Tribune (Nexis) 24 Feb. (Final ed.) c12 We ordered a slew of breakfast dishes to share—coddled eggs with smoked salmon, brioche French toast, [etc.].

ˈcoddling n.

ΚΠ

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 182 Unripe Berries, Apples, Apricocks, &c. are by Coddling or Baking suddenly dulcified.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 256 I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling.

2006 Restaurants & Institutions (Nexis) 1 Oct. 13 Psaltis gently cooks a jar of creamed spinach and raw egg in a water bath. ‘It's a cross between poaching and coddling,’ Psaltis says.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

coddlev.²

Brit.

/ˈkɒdl/, U.S.

/ˈkɑd(ə)l/

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: caudle v.¹

Etymology: Variant of caudle v.¹ Compare earlier coddle v.¹

transitive. To treat (a person) in an indulgent or overprotective way; to pamper, cosset, overindulge. Formerly sometimes with up. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > be infatuatedly fond or love to excess [verb (transitive)] > pet, indulge, or pamper

daunt1303

cocker1440

cherisha1450

pomper1483

daut?a1513

to cocker up1530

pamper1530

pimper1537

tiddle1560

cockle1570

dandlea1577

cotchel1578

cockney1582

fondle1582

coax1589

to coax up1592

to flatter up1598

dainty1622

pet1629

cosset1659

caudle1662

faddle1688

pettle1719

coddle1786

sugar-plum1788

twattle1790

to make a fuss of or over (with)1814

mud1814

pamperizea1845

mollycoddle1851

pompey1860

cosher1861

pussy1889

molly1907

1786 R. Heathcote Sylva ix. 38 Were I advised to take another wife, under the mean and unmanly prospect of being coddled now I am old, my reply would be [etc.].

1813 Mil. Panorama June 258 It is proper to coddle our gallant commanders, To keep up the stock of our brave Alexanders.

1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iv. 205 [He] never had a desire but he coddled and pampered it.

1889 Boy's Own Paper 17 Aug. 730/1 I don't want to be coddled up and made a fool of.

1936 W. Price S. Sea Adventure 240 In the experimental farms of Yap and Palau, the following vegetables, imported from Japan, have been coddled until they have been made to feel perfectly at home in the tropics.

1972 D. Wolf Foul! xxiv. 351 I told him that..someone had been wiping his ass since he was a little boy... ‘You all coddle him.’

2018 Legal Monitor Worldwide (Nexis) 12 Jan. She lashed out at a system that she said coddles criminals.

Derivatives

ˈcoddled adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > [adjective] > indulging or pampering > nursed to excess or cockered

coddled1836

mollycoddled1877

1836 J. F. Cooper Sketches Switzerland: Pt. 2nd II. xiv. 26 Goethe has got around him one of those factitious reputations that depend as much on gossip and tea drinking as on a high order of genius, and he is fortunate in being a coddled celebrity.

1915 M. Horton Bred of Desert xi. 137 You were a coddled and petted child, a pampered and spoiled youth.

2019 Farmington (New Mexico) Daily Times (Nexis) 16 Aug. a5 We were basically taking a vow of volunteer poverty and living in a completely different way from our coddled childhoods.

ˈcoddling n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > [noun] > indulging, petting, or pampering > treating as invalid or nursing overmuch

coddling1821

1821 Cobbett's Weekly Reg. 4 Aug. 195 If he carry his ideas further than these, and want a little coddling up.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 13 Nothing worse for children than coddling.

1931 F. Neumann in E. B. Reuter & J. R. Runner Family xi. 331 Some [children], of course, because of the absence of coddling and overprotectiveness so far absent in their homes, have developed a degree of independence.

2019 Independent (Nexis) 18 Aug. 27 University students are adults who shouldn't need coddling.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹a1816

n.²1942

v.¹1615

v.²1786

单词	coddle
释义	† coddlen.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: coddle v.² Etymology: < coddle v.² Slightly earlier currency is probably implied by moll-coddle n. Compare also the 18th-cent. nickname Molly Coddle (see mollycoddle n.), although that may be formed directly from the verb. N.E.D. (1891) gives the pronunciation as (kǫ·d'l) /ˈkɒd(ə)l/. colloquial. Obsolete. 1. A person who is coddled or mollycoddled, or who coddles himself or herself; a person who is pampered or soft. Cf. mollycoddle n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > one who is coddled coddlea1816 a1816 G. Hardinge Misc. Wks. (1818) II. 352 He..kept a mistress in a wood..; In other points affection's model, Till Mrs. Puss became a coddle. 1848 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds iii. iii The town Will pronounce you a mammy-sick coddle. 1907 Cassell's Mag. Aug. 299/1 Phyllis..was a thorough out-of-doors girl... ‘What a coddle you are, mother,’ the girl said. 2. A person who coddles others; (sometimes also) a fusspot, a busybody. Cf. coddler n.¹ ΚΠ 1827 A. Woodrooffe Michael II. 424 At first, these peculiarities were wearisome, ‘Master was a coddle, master was putting his finger into every thing.’ 1840 E. Pickering Quiet Husband I. vi. 196 Mrs. Ashton is considered a fidget and a coddle. 1885 Lamp June 282/2 ‘I will shut them [sc. the windows] now.’ ‘Oh, papa, what a coddle you are!’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020). coddlen.² Brit. /ˈkɒdl/, U.S. /ˈkɑd(ə)l/, Irish English /ˈkɑdl/ Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: coddle v.¹ Etymology: Probably < coddle v.¹ Irish English. A stew of meat and vegetables, typically bacon, sausages, potatoes, and onions. Now often in Dublin coddle.It is unclear whether quot. 1939 implies currency of this word. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > stewed meat stewpot1542 estew1566 fricassee1568 ragout1652 pepperpot1698 grenade1706 haricot1706 pupton1706 lobscouse1707 stew1756 puchero1802 granada1806 bredie1815 muddle1833 scouse1840 slum1847 hashmagandy1851 ropa vieja1855 chilli con carne1857 sorpotel1863 goulash1866 daube1877 paprikash1877 chilli1886 pot-pie1890 slumgullion1902 cholent1903 cracker-hash1904 cracker-stew1909 gippo1914 waterzooi1915 Fanny Adams1921 adobo1938 cassoulet1940 feijoada1941 coddle1942 stifado1950 rancho1957 tinga1964 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) iv. 593 Cuddle up in a coddlepot.] 1942 M. Laverty Never no More iv. 40 On washing days we always had coddle for dinner. 2001 B. Cullen It's Long Way from Penny Apples (2003) ix. 88 Is that a pot of coddle I smell in the fireplace? Because if it is, there's nothing I'd like better than a bit of Dublin coddle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). coddlev.¹ Brit. /ˈkɒdl/, U.S. /ˈkɑd(ə)l/ Forms: α. 1600s coddel, 1600s codle, 1600s– coddle. β. 1600s quaddle, 1600s quadle, 1600s quoddle, 1600s quodle; English regional 1700s–1900s quaddle, 1800s quoddle. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or perhaps (ii) formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: caudle v.¹; caudle n. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a variant of caudle v.¹ (compare coddle v.²), or perhaps < an unattested variant of caudle n. With sense 2 compare caudle n. a; with sense 1 perhaps compare the sense ‘trick, prank’ that is attested for the Middle French etymon of caudle n. (but not for the English noun itself). 1. transitive. To addle, befuddle (a person's brain, wits, etc.).Probably a figurative use of sense 2, although attested slightly earlier.Quot. 1804 may instead show coddle v.², or may pun on the two words. ΚΠ 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. K2 He is tane from Grammar-schoole halfe codled. a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1652) 37 If your coxcomes [i.e. heads] you would Quoddle, Here buy Braines to fill your noddle. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xix. 233 Green wits not yet halfe coddled as it were. 1804 Morning Chron. 31 Oct. Look well to your noddle; With all due care and pains, This case of your brains, In a good, warm, Welch wig you must coddle. 2001 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 2 Dec. 9 All that sitting on the bench at Anfield must have coddled the Fowler brain. 2. transitive. To boil (esp. fruit) gently; to parboil, stew. In later use also: to cook (an egg) in water held just below boiling point. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > boil > boil partially or gently parboil1381 leepa1522 coddle1616 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. ii, in Wks. I. 9 Taking in all the yong wenches, that passe by,..and codd'ling euery kernell of the fruit for 'hem. 1617 J. Murrell Daily Exercise for Ladies & Gentlewomen sig. C Gather greene Pippins..; quoddle them in two seuerall waters. a1746 M. Leapor Poems upon Several Occasions (1751) II. 69 She..Will coddle Apples nice and green, And fry her Pancakes—like a Queen. 1760 C. Hervey Let. 13 July in Lett. from Portugal, Spain, Italy & Germany (1785) II. lx. 339 Their officer..by his affability was making up for his want of delicacy in house and fare, which was plain meat coddled in the English manner. 1807 M. E. Rundell New Syst. Domest. Cookery (ed. 2) vii. 247 Pippin Pudding... Coddle six pippins in vine leaves covered with water [etc.]. 1894 Good Housek. June 285/2 Eggs for the sick should be coddled instead of boiled. 1915 Farmer's Advocate & Home Jrnl. (Winnipeg) 22 Sept. 1157/1 The women in the country..know far better than the demonstrator how to coddle apples and the various ways in which potatoes may be cooked. 2015 Canberra Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 23 Feb. (Final ed.) a15 For the dressing, gently coddle the eggs by adding them to boiling water for one minute. 3. transitive. English regional (northern). To roast (apples, peas, etc.) in the oven. Now rare. ΚΠ 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Coddle, to roast fruit, etc., as apples, and shelled beans. When the latter crack, they are coddled. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Coddle, to cook certain kinds of food in the oven in place of boiling. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 48 When apples are roasted in the oven they are said to be coddled. 2002 A. Kellett Yorks. Dict. (ed. 2) Coddle,..to roast. Derivatives ˈcoddled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > boiling or boiled > partially boiling or boiled parboilinga1450 parboiled1559 coddled1621 1621 J. Andrews Brazen Serpent To Rdr. sig. A4 Vulgar and halfe-coddled Iudgements. a1668 W. Davenant Distresses ii. i, in Wks. (1673) iii. 41/2 Soft All over, as a quodled Apple. 1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd II. July 13 I will suppose [such imperfect Malt] to consist of one third Part good Malt..and a third Part of all steely Malt, or Barley-kernels; or, to write plainer, of coddled, or roasted Barley. 1818 Gentleman's Mag. 88 i. 160/2 Place the flowers in scalding water..then cut off the coddled end of the stems. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 48 Coddled peas, are peas cooked like chestnuts. They are put into a tin and stewed in a hot oven. 2018 Welland (Ont.) Tribune (Nexis) 24 Feb. (Final ed.) c12 We ordered a slew of breakfast dishes to share—coddled eggs with smoked salmon, brioche French toast, [etc.]. ˈcoddling n. ΚΠ 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 182 Unripe Berries, Apples, Apricocks, &c. are by Coddling or Baking suddenly dulcified. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 256 I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling. 2006 Restaurants & Institutions (Nexis) 1 Oct. 13 Psaltis gently cooks a jar of creamed spinach and raw egg in a water bath. ‘It's a cross between poaching and coddling,’ Psaltis says. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). coddlev.² Brit. /ˈkɒdl/, U.S. /ˈkɑd(ə)l/ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: caudle v.¹ Etymology: Variant of caudle v.¹ Compare earlier coddle v.¹ transitive. To treat (a person) in an indulgent or overprotective way; to pamper, cosset, overindulge. Formerly sometimes with up. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > be infatuatedly fond or love to excess [verb (transitive)] > pet, indulge, or pamper daunt1303 cocker1440 cherisha1450 pomper1483 daut?a1513 to cocker up1530 pamper1530 pimper1537 tiddle1560 cockle1570 dandlea1577 cotchel1578 cockney1582 fondle1582 coax1589 to coax up1592 to flatter up1598 dainty1622 pet1629 cosset1659 caudle1662 faddle1688 pettle1719 coddle1786 sugar-plum1788 twattle1790 to make a fuss of or over (with)1814 mud1814 pamperizea1845 mollycoddle1851 pompey1860 cosher1861 pussy1889 molly1907 1786 R. Heathcote Sylva ix. 38 Were I advised to take another wife, under the mean and unmanly prospect of being coddled now I am old, my reply would be [etc.]. 1813 Mil. Panorama June 258 It is proper to coddle our gallant commanders, To keep up the stock of our brave Alexanders. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iv. 205 [He] never had a desire but he coddled and pampered it. 1889 Boy's Own Paper 17 Aug. 730/1 I don't want to be coddled up and made a fool of. 1936 W. Price S. Sea Adventure 240 In the experimental farms of Yap and Palau, the following vegetables, imported from Japan, have been coddled until they have been made to feel perfectly at home in the tropics. 1972 D. Wolf Foul! xxiv. 351 I told him that..someone had been wiping his ass since he was a little boy... ‘You all coddle him.’ 2018 Legal Monitor Worldwide (Nexis) 12 Jan. She lashed out at a system that she said coddles criminals. Derivatives ˈcoddled adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > [adjective] > indulging or pampering > nursed to excess or cockered coddled1836 mollycoddled1877 1836 J. F. Cooper Sketches Switzerland: Pt. 2nd II. xiv. 26 Goethe has got around him one of those factitious reputations that depend as much on gossip and tea drinking as on a high order of genius, and he is fortunate in being a coddled celebrity. 1915 M. Horton Bred of Desert xi. 137 You were a coddled and petted child, a pampered and spoiled youth. 2019 Farmington (New Mexico) Daily Times (Nexis) 16 Aug. a5 We were basically taking a vow of volunteer poverty and living in a completely different way from our coddled childhoods. ˈcoddling n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > [noun] > indulging, petting, or pampering > treating as invalid or nursing overmuch coddling1821 1821 Cobbett's Weekly Reg. 4 Aug. 195 If he carry his ideas further than these, and want a little coddling up. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 13 Nothing worse for children than coddling. 1931 F. Neumann in E. B. Reuter & J. R. Runner Family xi. 331 Some [children], of course, because of the absence of coddling and overprotectiveness so far absent in their homes, have developed a degree of independence. 2019 Independent (Nexis) 18 Aug. 27 University students are adults who shouldn't need coddling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1816n.²1942v.¹1615v.²1786
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