Meaning

2 senses

  1. An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.

  2. (archaic)An effeminate person.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Stop coddling these people.

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  2. He's been coddled by fate.

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  3. You shouldn't coddle her so much. She needs to learn to be independent.

    ruТебе не следует с ней так нянчиться. Ей нужно научиться быть независимой. — odexed

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Origin

Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.

Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.

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Forms

plural: coddles
Singularcoddle
Pluralcoddles

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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coddle — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto