(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.
Rasher
Definition:
(n.) A thin slice of bacon.
(n.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).
Example Sentences:
(1) The Brooklyn resident is also a regular egg eater – although she prefers hers scrambled and served with four rashers of bacon.
(2) In other words, if 100 people ate a sandwich containing three rashers of bacon (about 50g) every day of their lives, then 18% more of them would get bowel cancer, which equates to seven rather than six.
(3) Eating 50g of processed meat every day – the equivalent to one sausage or two rashers of bacon – increases the risk by 19%, compared to people who do not eat processed meat at all.
(4) Serves 8-10 2 small onions, finely chopped 2 sticks of celery, finely chopped 4 garlic cloves, minced Olive oil 1 large carrot, grated 2 bay leaves 2 sprigs of rosemary 4 rashers smoked bacon, finely chopped 500g pork mince 500g beef mince Salt and black pepper 400ml red wine 2 tins of chopped tomatoes 30g dried porcini mushrooms, rehydrated in hot water with a splash of milk 600-800g dried tagliatelle, cooked to serve Parmesan, grated, to serve 1 Over a low heat, gently soften the onions, celery and garlic in a little olive oil for about 15 minutes.
(5) Serves 6 bacon 6 rashers butter 50g leeks 800g chicken stock 1 litre parsley a handful, roughly chopped For the croûtes olive oil 6 tbsp rosemary needles 10g bread 6 slices Dice the bacon finely.
(6) Serves 4 1.2kg potatoes, preferably Maris Piper or King Edward, peeled and cut into roughly 4cm chunks 1 small green savoy cabbage (about 450g), trimmed and finely shredded 75g butter, cubed 6 rindless smoked streaky bacon rashers, cut into 3cm pieces 6 spring onions, trimmed and finely sliced 125ml double cream 4 large fridge-cold eggs Flaked sea salt Freshly ground black pepper 1 Put the potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with cold water.
(7) Some brave souls tackle the monstrous breakfast roll, which offers five sausages, three rashers of bacon, plus black pudding, egg and beans.
(8) The rasher essayists were holed up in asylums until they “recovered”: in other words, until they publicly recanted their views.
(9) In the original, the recipe suggested using bacon rashers 50mm thick.
(10) Liver and bacon Serves 1, takes 30 minutes ¼ lb liver 1 or 2 rashers bacon 1 onion 1 tomato (optional) 2 teaspoon flour Begin gently frying rashers and when they have given off some fat, add slices of liver that you have dipped in flour, and onion chopped very fine; fry quickly on each side; then lower gas and cook very slowly for about 7 minutes each side or more depending on the thickness of the slices.
(11) One pan, one ring: how to cook Sixties bedsit food Poor man's goulash Serves 1, takes 30 minutes 2 tomatoes or tomato paste 1 onion 1 or 2 rashers bacon 2 potatoes paprika (essential) salt sour milk, optional Start by boiling the potatoes for at least 10 minutes.
(12) Roast bacon and parsley sauce Serves four 16 rashers of good-quality unsmoked bacon, about 5mm thick.
(13) Eating two rashers of bacon a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19% and the risk goes up if a person eats more, experts have said.
(14) Mario Batali is a barrel-chested, thick-forearmed American-Italian chef whose love of the pig is so developed, indeed so intense, that for Christmas his kids gave him a scarf woven to look like a rasher of streaky bacon.
(15) Spencer called them "a symphony of rashers of bacon" with "tea-making obligato" and said they depict a banality of life which was, for those sent there from the battlefield, a "heaven in a hell of war".