Mollycoddle vs. Coddle — What's the Difference?

To be overprotective and indulgent toward.

Coddle (sometimes Dublin coddle; Irish: cadal) is an Irish dish which is often made to use up leftovers, and therefore without a specific recipe. However, it most commonly consists of layers of roughly sliced sausages (pork sausages) and rashers (thinly sliced, somewhat-fatty back bacon) with chunky potatoes, sliced onion, salt, pepper, and herbs (parsley or chives).

A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.

To cook in water just below the boiling point

A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.

To treat indulgently; baby.

(transitive) To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.

(transitive) To treat gently or with great care.

A pampered darling; an effeminate man; a milksop.

(transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.

To pamper or coddle.

(transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.

A pampered darling; an effeminate man

An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.

Treat with excessive indulgence;

(archaic) An effeminate person.

To parboil, or soften by boiling.

To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.

Treat with excessive indulgence;

Cook in nearly boiling water;