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• v  treat with excessive indulgence
  Let's not mollycoddle our students!
• v  cook in nearly boiling water
  coddle eggs

• Makers of athletic shoes have grown and prospered by selling a steady stream of new and improved models designed to cushion, coddle and correct the feet.
• In a region not known to coddle second-raters, it is not much fun to be the least distinctive sports franchise in town.
• To coddle the egg yolk, bring a small pot of water to a boil, slowly add the egg in its shell, and cook for three minutes.

• pamper
• featherbed
• cosset
• cocker
• baby
• mollycoddle
• spoil
• indulge

News & Articles

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• Galatoire's 33 Bar & Steak adds prime cuts to a New Orleans legend
  New steakhouse shares the conservative, coddle-the-customer style of the grand Creole seafood restaurant that spawned it.
  July 17, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune

Quotes

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• President Bush in FOXNews
  OBAMA: Blamed some of the problem of terrorism in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region on Bush administration policy in Pakistan, saying "We can't coddle, as we did, a dictator, give him billions of dollars and then he's making peace treaties with the...
• Richard Shelby in Florida Today
  We cannot afford to continue to coddle the dreams of rocket hobbyists and so-called commercial providers who claim the future of US human spaceflight can be achieved faster and cheaper than Constellation,Shelby said.
• Nancy Pelosi in International Herald Tribune
  Senator Frist now suggests that the best way forward in Afghanistan is to coddle the Taliban by welcoming Taliban members into a coalition government, as if 9/11 had never happened,Pelosi said Tuesday in a statement.