coddle

1. 1

   To treat gently or with great care.transitive

   • 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
2. 2

   To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.transitive

   • a coddled egg
3. 3

   To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.transitive

syn. pamper · posset · spoil

1. 1

   An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.

2. 2

   An effeminate person.archaic