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TOEFL BNC: 40523 COCA: 18813

coddle

verb
/ˈkɒdl/
/ˈkɑːdl/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they coddle
/ˈkɒdl/
/ˈkɑːdl/
he / she / it coddles
/ˈkɒdlz/
/ˈkɑːdlz/
past simple coddled
/ˈkɒdld/
/ˈkɑːdld/
past participle coddled
/ˈkɒdld/
/ˈkɑːdld/
-ing form coddling
/ˈkɒdlɪŋ/
/ˈkɑːdlɪŋ/
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  1. coddle somebody (often disapproving) to treat somebody with too much care and attention娇惯;娇养;溺爱
    • She coddles him like a child.她像孩子一样溺爱他。
    compare mollycoddleTopics Life stagesc2
  2. coddle something to cook eggs in water slightly below boiling point(在略低于沸点的水里)煮(蛋)
  3. Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘boil (fruit) gently)’: origin uncertain; sense (1) is probably a dialect variant of obsolete caudle ‘administer invalids' gruel’, based on Latin caldum ‘hot drink’, from calidus ‘warm’.

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