coddle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒd.əl/    美 /ˈkɑ.dəl/|/ˈkɔd.əl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
  2. An effeminate person. archaic
动词 v.
  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, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?
  2. To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point. transitive
    — a coddled egg
  3. To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect. transitive

词形变化

coddles present,singular,third-person coddling participle,present coddled participle,past coddled past coddles plural

词汇关系

近义词
pamper posset spoil
衍生词
coddled egg coddler coddlesome coddlingly mollycoddle overcoddle
相关词
scald

词源

词源 1
Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.
词源 2
Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary