Pamper

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pamper \Pam"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pampered}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Pampering}.] [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live
     luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to
        pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered


        for corruption." --Dr. T. Dwight.
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     2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to
        pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. --South.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pamper
       v : treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
           the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
           [syn: {featherbed}, {cosset}, {cocker}, {baby}, {coddle},
            {mollycoddle}, {spoil}, {indulge}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "pamper":
     baby, care for, caress, cater to, cherish, cocker, coddle, cosset,
     cradle, cultivate, dandle, dry-nurse, favor, feed, fondle, foster,
     give way to, gratify, humor, indulge, lavish care on, mollycoddle,
     mother, much, nourish, nurse, nurture, oblige, overindulge, pet,
     please, regale, satisfy, spoil, spoon-feed, suckle, sustain,
     tickle, wet-nurse, yield to