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coddles

coddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of coddle.

Meaning of coddle

Verb

coddle (third-person singular simple present coddles, present participle coddling, simple past and past participle coddled)

  1. (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
    • How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians...1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    cosset
  2. (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
    • a coddled egg
    Synonyms:
    simmer
  3. (transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.

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Questions about coddles

What is coddles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Coddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of coddle.

Words near coddles in the dictionary

  1. coddled
  2. coddled egg
  3. coddled eggs
  4. coddler
  5. coddlers
  6. coddles
  7. coddlesome
  8. coddling
  9. coddlingly
  10. coddlings
  11. Codds

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