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rozpieszczać — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • coddle verb To treat someone with excessive care, protection, or indulgence.
  • featherbed noun A mattress stuffed with feathers.
  • mollycoddle noun A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
  • pamper verb To treat someone with great care, comfort, and indulgence, often more than is really necessary.

Senses

rozpieszczać is used for these senses in English:

  • coddle (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
  • featherbed (transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.
  • pamper (transitive) To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.

coddle — full definition

  1. verb To treat someone with excessive care, protection, or indulgence.
  2. verb To cook gently in water just below boiling point, especially of eggs.

featherbed — full definition

  1. noun A mattress stuffed with feathers.
  2. noun An area of bog where a layer of moss covers a pool of water or mud, presenting a hazard to walkers who may fall through it. (Also in UK and Irish placenames.)
  3. noun A soft, slow pitch of predictable bounce.

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