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Meanings of
featherbed
in English
Portuguese
mimosear
Catalan
amanyagar
Back to the meaning
Treat with excessive indulgence.
baby
spoil
indulge
cocker
coddle
pamper
mollycoddle
cosset
Portuguese
mimosear
Portuguese
penugem
Spanish
colchón de plumas
Back to the meaning
A mattress stuffed with feathers.
feather bed
Portuguese
penugem
Synonyms
Examples for "
baby
"
baby
spoil
indulge
cocker
coddle
Examples for "
baby
"
1
She had made that decision long ago; her
baby
was the law.
2
Jai's health and the viability of our
baby
were at great risk.
3
Another
baby
,
born the previous year, left as his family moved away.
4
The main risks to the
baby
are premature birth and respiratory problems.
5
We wish that a
baby
will soon grace your family, Knotgrass said.
1
However, I also strongly believe in the right to
spoil
your vote.
2
I wanted to
spoil
the party by a long way, Abbott said.
3
No way was he going to let a woman
spoil
the moment.
4
We should not interfere in case we
spoil
an official criminal investigation.
5
The only result will be to
spoil
the control of the aeroplane.
1
News Corp is in an better position to
indulge
in public soul-searching.
2
IS IT possible to
indulge
in national stereotyping without being a racist?
3
Covid-19 has also given politicians a chance to
indulge
their protectionist instincts.
4
And these
indulge
in subtleties in order to excuse the most wicked.
5
Besides, the South with its slave labor could not
indulge
in manufacturing.
1
Other animals in the range include elephants, alligators, giraffes and
cocker
spaniels.
2
This was the moment when the red
cocker
's
tail came to grief.
3
He sounds like our
cocker
spaniel puppy, and still I don't understand.
4
I don't have to wait long for the muted clitter of
cocker
claws.
5
The seven puppies include five beagles and two
beagle
-
cocker
spaniel mixes.
1
I had no idea that he would be such an old
coddle
.
2
We make no attempt to
coddle
the people who work with us.
3
It's not that and you know it, Joe, so don't
coddle
me.
4
And so we left them alone awhile, to
coddle
over their raptures.
5
Come on, and don't be a
molly
-
coddle
,
cried Tommy, wild to go.
1
I'd a humor to
pamper
myself so long as my side protested.
2
I knew how to
pamper
myself and indulge in a slow morning.
3
How much you
pamper
yourself after that is entirely up to you.
4
In this hell of theirs they will even
pamper
his beastly body.'
5
And you don't have to
pamper
them-particularlyin the matter of food.
1
But they got four in return: Nick is no
mollycoddle
,
you know.
2
And they say he's the most awful
mollycoddle
-
looks
just
like a girl.
3
We don't need a
mollycoddle
like you here in the Naval Academy!
4
We didn't bring the boy out here to make a
mollycoddle
of him.
5
You don't want to make a
mollycoddle
of him, do you?
1
We must rally round and
cosset
this cove in no uncertain manner.
2
Not
cosset
her and spoil her for the next week or two.
3
She, bless her, should dandle and
cosset
them to her heart's content.
4
Miss Matilda looked miserably ill; and I prepared to comfort and
cosset
her.
5
I've never been the type to flatter and
cosset
my patients.
Usage of
featherbed
in English
1
Great
featherbed
clouds are billowing across the sun, their edges brilliant silver.
2
Her
featherbed
was twice as wide and lofty as my straw-and-rag-filled shakedown.
3
The bed hangings were askew and the
featherbed
dumped unceremoniously on the floor.
4
The bedding smelled of down must, and the pungent straw beneath the
featherbed
.
5
For a moment she thought about the High King's
featherbed
.
6
I wondered if I could find her a
featherbed
somewhere to go over the ticking.
7
Shae murmured sleepily and rolled toward him when he sat on the edge of the
featherbed
.
8
Her knees ached, and she would have given much for a
featherbed
and a pillow just then.
9
Bran preferred the hard stone of the window seat to the comforts of his
featherbed
and blankets.
10
Then she began saving for a
featherbed
.
11
The
featherbed
was soft and cozy.
12
The
featherbed
weighed a thousand pounds.
13
The deepest
featherbed
may as well be a gibbet for all the comfort I can find upon it.
14
Sandor Clegane scooped her up around the waist and lifted her off the
featherbed
as she struggled feebly.
15
There was a sudden flash of white as he lunged, and I-found myself pressed deep into the
featherbed
.
16
With a scramble and shrug Ashlin cast her shirt aside and crawled forward, forcing Savedra back against the
featherbed
.
Other examples for "featherbed"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
featherbed
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
huge featherbed
boast a featherbed
deepest featherbed
great featherbed
let the featherbed
More collocations
Translations for
featherbed
Portuguese
mimosear
mimar
amimar
afagar
penugem
Catalan
amanyagar
contemplar
amoixar
Spanish
colchón de plumas
Featherbed
through the time