verb
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To treat gently or with great care.
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To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
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To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
noun
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The act of one who coddles or pampers.
noun
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A young small cod.
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A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus Urophycis.
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A small, immature apple
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Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
Examples of coddling in a Sentence
The barberry's brilliant fruit was likewise food for my eyes merely; but I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling, which the proprietor and travellers had overlooked.
But you can probably get close if your orchard hygiene is impeccable and if you use traps for coddling moths and apple maggots.
Of all the coddling he'd accused Sofi and Bianca of doing, he'd been working hard to protect Darian from anything that might force him to grow into his powers.