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coddle
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Wikipedia
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Coddle (sometimes Dublin coddle ) is an Irish dish which is often made to use up leftovers, and therefore without a specific recipe. However, it most commonly consists of layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and rashers (thinly sliced, somewhat fatty ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Police Chief McBride says coddling young lawbreakers just creates more adult criminals. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Nor does he coddle his players. ▪ Our car coddling extends way beyond an inadequate transit system. ▪ She never ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To treat gentle or with great care. 2 (context transitive English) To cook slowly in hot water that ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coddle \Cod"dle\ (k[o^]d"d'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coddled (-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Coddling (-dl[i^]ng).] [Cf. Prov . E. caddle to coax, spoil, fondle, and Cade , a. & v. t.] [Written also codle .] To parboil, or soften by boiling. It [the guava ...
Usage examples of coddle.
Taniquel insisted they were pushing him too fast, while Auster glowered and accused Kennard and Elorie of coddling him.
Rees walked into the room, nodding at Leke to give him a plate of coddled eggs.
President Bishop had been too much of a dove, coddling the Chinese, while Nafe was willing to take a more hard-line stance.
We had been sixties children, coddled first, then spoiled, and finally stranded by the neap tide of narcissism, left to rot with our obsessive quests for personal fulfillment.
The truth is, the Western press coddled the PLO and never judged it with anywhere near the scrutiny that it judged Israeli, Phalangist, or American behavior.
I am obliged to coddle her, and feed her, and ptisan her, like a sick baby, bless her dear old heart that loves my darling Emmy!
We are the devitalized product of the universal custom of coddling, and the less we live within four walls, and the more we breathe the free outdoor air, the stronger, healthier and more capable we become.
At the end of its four-mile reins, coddled by the rockmilk engine, held tight by hooks like recurved steeples, the avanc progressed steadily and curiously through what was, to it, an alien sea.
I have seen the Alani horsemen try some such rope trick to coddle their feet, and I have seen them regret it.
The new ship hovered above them in Spacedock, as comfortable as an eagle in its aerie, being tended, coddled, and preened by devoted minions in extravehicular suits, none quite as consumed with wonder as the proud captain himself.
So I took a Russified German, born in Russia but brought up without coddling, in the bracing and practical German manner.
Farmers battled Terran immigrants like tarnished plant bugs, sawflies, wooly aphids, coddling moths, leafrollers, lesser apple worms, and the arch enemy: plum curculio.
She spent her visits either shadowing Brody or coddling my babies like they were her dolls.
But your uncle is lord of a horde of wild robbers, and if I feed him and coddle him we are safe, and no one can show anger toward them.
The ambassador owed his great fortune entirely to the fair sex, because he possessed to the highest degree the art of coddling love.