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Coddled

adj, verb

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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."
2
Stewed or simmered.
"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'."

Verb

1
simple past and past participle of coddle form-of, participle, past

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