What's the difference between bacon and coddle?

Bacon


Definition:

  • (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
  • (2) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
  • (3) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
  • (4) Parasite kinetics were followed in pigs receiving A. suum eggs as repeated trickle inoculations at two dose levels beginning at a body weight of 25 kg until their slaughter at 90 kg (baconers).
  • (5) Conservative committee member Richard Bacon suggested it was "purely artificial".
  • (6) 2 Ten minutes before the potatoes are ready, melt 25g of the butter in a large nonstick frying pan and fry the bacon until lightly coloured.
  • (7) In place of prosciutto: • Bacon sliced and fried until crisp.
  • (8) It has been investigated the function of the anal sphincters following Bacon type pull-through operation.
  • (9) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
  • (10) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
  • (11) Meanwhile, Nicholson and Hextall were surprised to learn from one committee member, Richard Bacon, that CSC had been offering some trusts an alternative system not owned by IBA.
  • (12) Term for "excess weight due to emotional overeating": grief bacon.
  • (13) That’s why instantly recognisable trophy pieces – a Picasso, a Giacometti, a Klimt, a Bacon – command such ridiculously high prices.
  • (14) Mexican-style burgers (topped with salsa, bacon, cheese) are sensational.
  • (15) The new gallery will display Hirst's over 2,000-strong art collection, including pieces by Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and street artist Banksy.
  • (16) But most of the collection, including works by Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and many others, remains in the vaults and basement.
  • (17) If there’s nothing new, there are always those alarming pictures of him doing battle with a bacon butty.
  • (18) But for now, Miliband seems ever more solitary, a lone figure trying to keep hold of the bacon sandwich that looks all too symbolic of an omni-crumble to come.
  • (19) 38 with extensive, and 12 with limited disease, were treated with BACON.
  • (20) Or on one he didn't like: "I can admire Bacon's crafty use of paint, though it tends towards gimmickry.

Coddle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To parboil, or soften by boiling.
  • (v. t.) To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They're angelic mother-saviours, there to lead Caspar out of misery by coddling his ego.
  • (2) The children of the rich never stop being coddled and gladhanded their way through life; the children of the poor deserve a little bit of support before being dumped on to the minimum wage pile.
  • (3) But is reducing use by deploying other substances, such as the pheromone of the female coddling moth , the pest that puts maggots on apples.
  • (4) As he put it: "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
  • (5) China doesn't just violate the human rights of its citizens, it coddles and supports brutal dictatorships around the world.
  • (6) We didn’t coddle or conciliate with the dictators in Iran.” On the eve of his visit to Lausanne, Kerry said he would not take responsibility for Cotton’s intervention, which he said was an unprecedented attempt to interfere in an executive’s foreign negotiations.
  • (7) France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one day have to answer to the Chinese people, one of the country's leading civil rights activist has told The Observer.
  • (8) Needless to say, the purchasers were wealthy Tory donors looking out for their coddled offspring.
  • (9) And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody of the coddled one-percent.
  • (10) Conversely, only one in four residents believed that most poor people become poor as a result of lack of effort on their part, and one in five believed that society is coddling the poor.
  • (11) "For too long," Heijne wrote, "the Dutch government has coddled the dictator in Moscow."
  • (12) Take the ubiquitous calls today for European countries to do just what will "reassure the markets", as though holders of government bonds were trembling, paranoid little flowers who must be psychically coddled at all costs.
  • (13) Crazy,” he says, but then a little voice, the one that has savagely punctured the brattishness of coddled celebrities four times now as presenter of the Golden Globes, kicks in.
  • (14) The radio crackles with adverts attacking the Milwaukee mayor as a gun-controlling, criminal-coddling, union-schmoozing, tax-and-spend liberal dinosaur.
  • (15) The first few days go to staring and coddling and dodging effluent.
  • (16) Making Donald Trump our commander-in-chief would be a historic mistake.” The former first lady deconstructed Trump’s policy positions as a recipe for alienating allies, emboldening enemies and coddling dictators.
  • (17) Photograph: Jonathan Kaiman for the Guardian "He walked this weird line between knowing that he was a symbol of nationhood on one level, and even of independence, I guess – but at the same time, he was very comfortable in this coddled position as a performer," said Deborah Stratman, a Chicago-based documentary film-maker who lived with Adili as he toured Xinjiang for three months in 2001.
  • (18) Discussing university “safe spaces” and the threats to free speech, the academic psychologist Jonathan Haidt recently suggested the problem had its roots in increasingly risk-free, coddled childhoods.
  • (19) Lazy bum babies shouldn’t be coddled with all sorts of indolence-promoting nutrition.
  • (20) The frontrunner for the Republican nomination told the programme’s presenter, Piers Morgan, on Wednesday that residents of the Brussels neighbourhood Molenbeek had “coddled and taken care of” Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam before his arrest.