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Meanings of coddle in English

Portuguese
mimosear
Catalan
amanyagar

Treat with excessive indulgence.

mimosear
Usage of coddle in English
1
I had no idea that he would be such an old coddle.
Can You Forgive Her?
2
We make no attempt to coddle the people who work with us.
My Life and Work
3
It's not that and you know it, Joe, so don't coddle me.
Patient Zero
4
And so we left them alone awhile, to coddle over their raptures.
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
5
Come on, and don't be a molly-coddle, cried Tommy, wild to go.
The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth ...
6
And yet I coddle this poor knave sometimes-oh ,asI do to-day!
Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
7
If someone tends towards the commitment-phobic, technology can nurture and coddle that phobia.
The Guardian
8
We also took saunas-a horse-doctor treatment which didn't coddle any weaklings.
The forgotten soldier
9
Flip to Chapter 14 for more ways to coddle your soil.
Vegetable gardening for dummies
10
Just so long as athletes advertise the college, the administrations will coddle them.
The Plastic Age
11
First the Irishman became angry, and called him a coward and a molly-coddle.
Jimmie Higgins
12
You have in addition this enemy prisoner you coddle, this Trader.
Foundation and Empire
13
Children tend and care for their Webkinz avatars much like adults coddle Sims.
Wired
14
But our boys,-thereisn't anyone to coddle them-theyhave to stick it out.
The Tin Soldier
15
He wasn't any molly-coddle to go to bed at ten o'clock!
The Three Partners
16
We must not coddle these people, no matter how strong their domestic political constituency.
The Irish Times
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Translations for coddle
Coddle through the time
Coddle across language varieties
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Common
United States of America
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