CODDLE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To parboil, or soften by boiling. It [the guava fruit] may be coddled. Dampier.

2.
v.

To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper. How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas! Thackeray. He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. Southey.

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