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Answer for the clue "Cosset — pamper ", 6 letters:
coddle

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Word definitions for coddle in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "boil gently," probably from caudle "warm drink for invalids" (c.1300), from Anglo-French caudel (c.1300), ultimately from Latin calidium "warm drink, warm wine and water," neuter of calidus "hot," from calere "be warm" (see calorie ). Verb meaning ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

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.