0 present 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:
Also, improvements have been made in controlling coddling moth in apples with organic methods9.
These young fellows do not need coddling; they want discipline, and a chance to express their personalities.
Is it punishment, rehabilitation, reparation, short, sharp shock, social work, molly coddling, protection, victimisation, or what?
It is difficult for all those old people to understand what may seem to them to be newfangled ideas and the coddling of the modern child.
We do not want coddling and carrying.
He criticized what he saw as the sentimental coddling of the mediocre and botched.
The hosts, who nearly always live on the premises, provide plenty of coddling.
