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Featherbed Common

Featherbed has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

a mattress stuffed with feathers

2

A mattress stuffed with feathers.

Verb
1

treat with excessive indulgence

"grandparents often pamper the children"

"Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

2

hire more workers than are necessary

3

To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.

See Also
mollycoddle cosset indulgence bog pamper excessive featherbeds feather
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
mattress treat hire
Rhyming Words
bed obed abed orbed cubed abbed pubed lubed tubed robed mobed unbed lobed rebed embed imbed robbed nibbed biobed fibbed
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