coddled

Adjective

coddled

1. Pampered; overprotected and/or overindulged.
   • The "coddled" prisoner has been the subject of more newspaper editorials, and more discussion by the general public than almost any other phase of our criminal problem.1951, Joseph Fulling Fishman, Sex in Prison: Revealing Sex Conditions in American Prisons, page 163
   • As the most coddled subgroup (white males) of what might well be the most coddled generation in human history, Homer and his peers have had their every whim catered to since birth by a society geared almost exclusively to their priorities.2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson, page 97
2. Stewed or simmered.
   • In the first menu the veal needs about an hour and a half's cooking; the potatoes an hour's; the coddled pears two hours'; the sponge caked twenty minutes' and the oysters ten minutes'.1917, Ida Bailey Allen, Mrs. Allen's Cook Book, page 107
   • For a perfect product for apple sauce the score is 100; for baked apple, 48; and for coddled apple, 44 as indicated on grading sheets.1932, North and South Dakota Horticulture - Volumes 4-9, page 107