- coddle somebody (often disapproving)
to treat somebody with too much care and attention 娇惯；娇养；溺爱 She coddles him like a child. 她像个孩子一样拥抱他。
- coddle something
to cook eggs in water slightly below boiling point （在略低于沸点的水里）煮（蛋）
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘boil (fruit) gently)’: origin uncertain; sense (1) is probably a dialect variant of obsolete caudle ‘administer invalids' gruel’, based on Latin caldum ‘hot drink’, from calidus ‘warm’.