Crossword clues for pamper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pamper \Pam"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pampering.] [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.]
To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. ``A body . . . pampered for corruption.''
--Dr. T. Dwight.To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination.
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to cram with food," probably from Middle Dutch (compare West Flemish pamperen "cram with food, overindulge;" dialectal German pampen "to cram"), probably from frequentative of root of pap (n.1). Meaning "to overindulge" first attested 1520s. Related: Pampered; pampering.
Wiktionary
vb. To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
WordNet
v. treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
Usage examples of "pamper".
The conditions of club life, with as many domestic hearths to visit as he wished, and to stay away from when he chose, the luxury and freedom of pampered bachelorhood, had not only been deemed appropriate, but necessary to his peculiar needs and organisation.
Roger had showered her with gifts, pampering her extravagantly to make up for the bruises and terror.
Tizbe must be a var-child from some big-city clan, so rich and decadent they pampered even their summerlings, kissing them on the brow and sending them off unequipped to survive past their first year.
Goths who followed the Triarian standard, begging Zeno to be reconciled to their lord, and hinting that he was a truer friend to the Empire than the petted and pampered son of Theudemir.
And, as a big fierce hound will yie to a pampered lapdog that learned to dominate it when it was a puppr so the dragon, trained from hatchlinghood to obey puny men, subside now.
Though he may have been spoiled and pampered by his family, Brian was an intelligent young man, as Brewster had already observed, and his anger and bitterness over what had happened to him frequently manifested itself in a personality that could be highly ascerbic and sarcastic.
Even captain Bullen, no admirer of the sybaritic life, had never been heard to complain of being pampered.
New York, there to live as his wife, partly bullied, partly pampered, in the accustomed Burrage manner?
They had hated him before he came, hated him while he was there, hated him after he left, carried their hatred for him away malignantly like some pampered treasure after they separated from each other and went to their solitude.
His little girl, his bright golden darling, with some primped and pampered and polished bower lad?
For a while he was content to lie there and be pampered, but once I began to show signs of being more ouana than soume, he laughed and threw me onto my back, lying over me so I could not move.
She towel dried her hair and let it curl naturally while she sat on the curved edge of the ceramic tub and pampered her body with almond-scented lotion that left her skin satin smooth, followed by a spritz of vanilla cologne at each pulse point.
The guy regarded me as one would a pigeon squit plopped on a pampered pompadour.
As soon as the pampered little Yorkie saw Sweetie, she leaped to the floor and the two dogs took off through the doggie door.
As pampered as it was, Tenko died at the age of seven, and Shunkin, like most owners who lose their birds, tried to find a worthy successor.