coddleとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒdəl/
• 韻: -ɒdəl

動詞

coddle (三人称単数 現在形 coddles, 現在分詞 coddling, 過去形および過去分詞形 coddled)

1. (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
   • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, chapter 10 “Ethel and her Relations” (ebook):

     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. (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
   • 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World, volume 1, page 222 of 1699 edition:

     It [the guava fruit] bakes as well as a Pear, and it may be coddled, and it makes good Pies.

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

同意語

• (treat gently): cosset, pamper, posset, spoil; see also Thesaurus:pamper
• (cook slowly): simmer

派生語

• coddled egg
• mollycoddle

関連する語

• scald