Crossword clues for coddle
coddle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
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To parboil, or soften by boiling.
It [the guava fruit] may be coddled.
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To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.
How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas!
--Thackeray.He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation.
--Southey.
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 "treat tenderly" first recorded 1815 (in Jane Austen's "Emma"). Related: Coddled; coddling.
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 is below the boiling point. 3 (context transitive English) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
WordNet
v. treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"
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 back bacon) with sliced potatoes and onions. Traditionally, it can also include barley.
Coddle is particularly associated with the capital of Ireland, Dublin. It was reputedly a favourite dish of Seán O'Casey and Jonathan Swift, and it appears in several Dublin literary references including the works of James Joyce.
The dish is braised in the stock produced by boiling the rashers and sausages. Some traditional recipes favour the addition of a small amount of Guinness to the pot, but this is very rare in modern versions of the recipe. The dish should be cooked in a pot with a well-fitting lid in order to steam the ingredients left uncovered by water. The only seasoning is usually salt, pepper, and occasionally parsley. It could be considered a comfort food in Ireland, and is inexpensive, easy to prepare and quick to cook. It is often eaten in the winter months. In the days when Catholics were not supposed to eat meat on Fridays, this was a meal often eaten on Thursdays as it allowed a family to use up any remaining sausages or rashers.
The name comes from the verb coddle, meaning to cook food in water below boiling, which in turn derives from caudle, a warm drink given to the sick.
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.