What is another word for coddle?

Pronunciation: [kˈɒdə͡l] (IPA)

Coddle refers to an act of pampering, sheltering, or overprotecting someone or something. There are a lot of synonyms for the word 'Coddle'. One popular synonym for coddle is 'baby'. It means to care or treat someone with meticulousness as if they were a small baby. Another synonym for coddle is 'spoiling'. It implies that someone is catering to one's every whim, and this could lead to making them helpless and entitled. Some other synonyms for coddle include 'mollycoddle,' 'cozy,' 'nurture,' 'pamper,' 'cater,' 'fawn,' 'dote,' 'cosset,' etc. The use of synonyms helps to create variety and clarity in writing or speech.

Synonyms for Coddle:

What are the hypernyms for Coddle?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Coddle?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for coddle (as verbs)

What are the opposite words for coddle?

Coddle is a verb that means to treat someone with excessive care or attention. Some antonyms for this word could be neglect, ignore, abandon, or mistreat. Neglect means to fail to care for or attend to something or someone properly. Ignore means to pay no attention to someone or something. Abandon means to leave someone behind or completely withdraw one's support from someone. Mistreat means to treat someone in a cruel, abusive, or unfair manner. These antonyms all suggest a lack of care or attention to someone, rather than the excessive care and attention implied by the word coddle.

What are the antonyms for Coddle?

Usage examples for Coddle

"You coddle him," said Kingsnorth, with a short bitter laugh.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Any kind of a dream-a fancy-a wish unfulfilled-a sorrow that we coddle-some nothing which suddenly becomes everything to us.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
The count is rich; he can coddle himself in bed as long as it's necessary."
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock

Famous quotes with Coddle

  • The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
    Ron Paul
  • The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
    Ron Paul
  • As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism. It later occurred to me that his plays were copyrighted, and that he, like I, was living through the operations of that same free market. His protestations were not borne out by his actions, neither they be. Why, then, did he profess Communism? Because it sold. The public’s endorsement of his plays kept him alive; as Marx was kept alive by the fortune Engels’s family had made selling furniture; as universities, established and funded by the Free Enterprise system — which is to say by the accrual of wealth — house, support, and coddle generations of the young in their dissertations on the evils of America.
    Bertolt Brecht
  • The country does want rest, we all want rest. Our very civilization wants it — and we mean that it shall have it. It shall have rest — repose — refreshment of soul and re-invigoration of faculty. And that rest shall be of life and not of death. It shall not be a poison that pacifies restlessness in death, nor shall it be any kind of anodyne or patting or propping or bolstering — as if a man with a cancer in his breast would be well if he only said he was so and wore a clean shirt and kept his shoes tied. We want the rest of a real Union, not of a name, not of a great transparent sham, which good old gentlemen must coddle and pat and dandle, and declare wheedlingly is the dearest Union that ever was, SO it is; and naughty, ugly old fanatics shan't frighten the pretty precious — no, they sha'n't. Are we babies or men? This is not the Union our fathers framed — and when slavery says that it will tolerate a Union on condition that freedom holds its tongue and consents that the Constitution means first slavery at all costs and then liberty, if you can get it, it speaks plainly and manfully, and says what it means. There are not wanting men enough to fall on their knees and cry: 'Certainly, certainly, stay on those terms. Don't go out of the Union — please don't go out; we'll promise to take great care in future that you have everything you want. Hold our tongues? Certainly. These people who talk about liberty are only a few fanatics — they are tolerably educated, but most of 'em are crazy; we don't speak to them in the street; we don't ask them to dinner; really, they are of no account, and if you'll really consent to stay in the Union, we'll see if we can't turn Plymouth Rock into a lump of dough'. I don't believe the Southern gentlemen want to be fed on dough. I believe they see quite as clearly as we do that this is not the sentiment of the North, because they can read the election returns as well as we. The thoughtful men among them see and feel that there is a hearty abhorrence of slavery among us, and a hearty desire to prevent its increase and expansion, and a constantly deepening conviction that the two systems of society are incompatible. When they want to know the sentiment of the North, they do not open their ears to speeches, they open their eyes, and go and look in the ballot-box, and they see there a constantly growing resolution that the Union of the United States shall no longer be a pretty name for the extension of slavery and the subversion of the Constitution. Both parties stand front to front. Each claims that the other is aggressive, that its rights have been outraged, and that the Constitution is on its side. Who shall decide? Shall it be the Supreme Court? But that is only a co-ordinate branch of the government. Its right to decide is not mutually acknowledged. There is no universally recognized official expounder of the meaning of the Constitution. Such an instrument, written or unwritten, always means in a crisis what the people choose. The people of the United States will always interpret the Constitution for themselves, because that is the nature of popular governments, and because they have learned that judges are sometimes appointed to do partisan service.
    George William Curtis

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