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- MOLLYCODDLE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
indulge, pamper, humor, spoil, baby, mollycoddle mean to show undue favor to a person's desires and feelings indulge implies excessive compliance and weakness in gratifying another's or one's own desires pamper implies inordinate gratification of desire for luxury and comfort with consequent enervating effect
- MOLLYCODDLING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
MOLLYCODDLING definition: 1 present participle of mollycoddle 2 to give someone too much care or protection: Learn more
- Mollycoddling - definition of . . . - The Free Dictionary
To be overprotective and indulgent toward See Synonyms at pamper n A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected [molly, milksop (from Molly, nickname for Mary) + coddle ] mol′ly·cod′dler n American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition
- Mollycoddle - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com
Mollycoddle means to spoil or overindulge something You can think of mollycoddle as an extreme form of coddle If you constantly fuss over your dog and serve her homemade food while she's resting on a soft feather bed, you mollycoddle her Mollycoddle began as a noun describing a man who pampered or indulged himself too much
- MOLLYCODDLE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
2 meanings: 1 to treat with indulgent care; pamper 2 a pampered person Click for more definitions
- mollycoddling, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford . . .
What does the adjective mollycoddling mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective mollycoddling See ‘Meaning use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence
- Mollycoddle - Definition, Meaning, and Examples in English
To treat someone with an excessive amount of care or attention, often in a way that prevents them from becoming independent or self-sufficient Mollycoddling can involve overprotecting, spoiling, or indulging someone, typically to their detriment
- Mollycoddling
Mollycoddling Q From Richard Buttrey, UK: Have you any idea where mollycoddling originated? A Let’s take it in its two parts The second comes from the verb to coddle, meaning to treat somebody in an overprotective way, as though he or she were an invalid
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