0 past simple and past participle of coddle
1 to cook food, especially eggs, in water just below boiling temperature:
coddled eggs
2 to protect someone or something too much:
Those coddled peoples will finally learn to stand up to labor unions, demand more from workers, lower taxes, and abandon their bloated social welfare benefits.
For a century, industry and agriculture in the interior was coddled and protected by the national state.
The texts of the plays were so passionately coddled throughout that the subtext got suffocated in the embrace.
It is not true to say that our people are coddled into a state of apathy and have no sense of duty to their country.
Is my boy, or the boys of other people, to die while they remain here pampered and coddled?
We do not take the view that the nationalised industries have to be coddled—quite the opposite.
They are not asking to be coddled, but they point out that they simply cannot compete with a rice-bowl economy.
A first-year student going into a school for teaching practice is usually quite coddled.
