Coddle
verb
To treat someone in an overprotective way.
Parents often coddle their children because they want to keep them safe.
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- coddle someone
- coddle himself
verb
To cook food, especially eggs, in water that is below boiling point.
She likes to coddle the eggs for her breakfast.
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- coddle eggs
- coddle for breakfast
verb
To treat someone in an overprotective way.
Parents often coddle their children because they want to keep them safe.
Often appears as...
- coddle someone
- coddle himself
verb
To cook food, especially eggs, in water that is below boiling point.
She likes to coddle the eggs for her breakfast.
Often appears as...
- coddle eggs
- coddle for breakfast
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Using 'coddle' suggests the care is excessive and not always positive.
He's too coddled to handle real challenges.
Pro Tip 2/3Infantilizing Adults
'Coddle' warns of treating adults like children, which might be seen as disrespectful.
The manager's tendency to coddle his staff undermined their confidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Overprotection
Overusing 'coddle' may imply a lack of necessary independence or toughness.
You can't coddle her forever; she must learn to face life.
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Interviewing Ex-Rhino...
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Bringing forests into...
this in solitary confinement cells where nature is nowhere but when I offered this idea to prisons in Washington State the officers perceived this activity as coddling the prisoners and so they
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Bryce Dallas Howard: How...
so we'd have more courage and less fear when dealing with uncomfortable situations. So that meant zero coddling. Put your comfort away, she'd preach.
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Interviewing Ex-Rhino...
often put his own life in danger in the process prior Pasolini is that what has coddled Appalachia Oh believe it or not a formal way attacking the very gonna tear these guys told me that poachers
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Bringing forests into...
this in solitary confinement cells where nature is nowhere but when I offered this idea to prisons in Washington State the officers perceived this activity as coddling the prisoners and so they
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Bryce Dallas Howard: How...
so we'd have more courage and less fear when dealing with uncomfortable situations. So that meant zero coddling. Put your comfort away, she'd preach.
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Ricky Schroder
American Actor
I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.
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Bill Goldberg
American Wrestler
Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
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Rupert Murdoch
American Publisher
I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle
American Critic
At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me, shelter me, or do things for me, he taught me to 'Make the Case' for everything in life - from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted.
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Ron Paul
American Politician
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
People have the right to live as equal citizens under the law. They do not have the right to demand that their identities be coddled and celebrated lest they might otherwise get offended.
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Jesse Williams
American Actor
We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.
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Damien Chazelle
American Director
I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.
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Tom Herman
American Coach
I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.
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Ricky Schroder
American Actor
I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.
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Bill Goldberg
American Wrestler
Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
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Rupert Murdoch
American Publisher
I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle
American Critic
At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me, shelter me, or do things for me, he taught me to 'Make the Case' for everything in life - from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted.
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Ron Paul
American Politician
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
People have the right to live as equal citizens under the law. They do not have the right to demand that their identities be coddled and celebrated lest they might otherwise get offended.
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Jesse Williams
American Actor
We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.
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Damien Chazelle
American Director
I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.
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Tom Herman
American Coach
I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.
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