coddled

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adjective

Pampered; overprotected and/or overindulged.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. Pampered; overprotected and/or overindulged.

    The "coddled" prisoner has been the subject of more newspaper editorials, and more discussion by the general public than almost any other phase of our criminal problem.

    1951, Joseph Fulling Fishman, Sex in Prison: Revealing Sex Conditions in American Prisons, page 163
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    As the most coddled subgroup (white males) of what might well be the most coddled generation in human history, Homer and his peers have had their every whim catered to since birth by a society geared almost exclusively to their priorities.

    2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson, page 97

    I don't think any of us did at that point ... nurses and doctors were very, very coddled at that point. They needed us so much that they didn't make us do a lot of things.

    2021, Janet D. Tanner, Army Nurse Corps Voices from the Vietnam War, page 75
  2. Stewed or simmered.

    For a perfect product for apple sauce the score is 100; for baked apple, 48; and for coddled apple, 44 as indicated on grading sheets.

    1932, North and South Dakota Horticulture - Volumes 4-9, page 107
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    In the first menu the veal needs about an hour and a half's cooking; the potatoes an hour's; the coddled pears two hours'; the sponge caked twenty minutes' and the oysters ten minutes'.

    1917, Ida Bailey Allen, Mrs. Allen's Cook Book, page 107

    Whatever its beginnings, the original salad of romaine lettuce mixed with grated cheese, coddled eggs and bread cubes fried in olive oil started a no-end-in-sight trend.

    1976, Betty Crocker's Cooking American Style, page 108
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of coddle

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
cosseted

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

coddled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coddled

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coddled,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coddled.

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