featherbed

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A mattress stuffed with feathers.
2. (UK, especially) An area of bog where a layer of moss covers a pool of water or mud, presenting a hazard to walkers who may fall through it. (Also in UK and Irish placenames.)
3. A soft, slow pitch of predictable bounce.

Verb

1. (transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.
2. (intransitive) To engage in featherbedding; to employ more workers than necessary to fulfill a labor union requirement.

Sinónimos

feather bed

cocker

mollycoddle

coddle

cosset

pamper

baby

👶

indulge

spoil

feather-bed

Traducións

dorloter

verwöhnen

choyer

amimar

afagar

mimosear

Federbett

نهب

سلق

دلّل

دلل

شوه

ضل

ضلل

خرب

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From feather + bed.