featherbed

Speech parts

1. featherbed - Noun

2. featherbed - Verb

Meaning

treat with excessive indulgence

a mattress stuffed with feathers

hire more workers than are necessary

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

cocker baby indulge spoil pamper coddle cosset mollycoddle feather bed bumble coast slack doodle diddle luxe
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Antonyms

pennyworth want stiffen work hard push your limits do your best
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Hypernyms

handle engage treat employ hire mattress

Related terms

feather one's nest

Phrases with the word

featherbed bog

Derivatives

featherbedded featherbedding

Examples

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. Thomas Jefferson

Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water. Dante Alighieri

grandparents often pamper the children Source: Internet

Let's not mollycoddle our students! Source: Internet

A Gutenberg press replica at the Featherbed Alley Printshop Museum, in Bermuda In the decades after Gutenberg, many conservative patrons looked down on cheap printed books; books produced by hand were considered more desirable. Source: Internet

Off Featherbed Lane in New Addington, the reserve is home to 40 of the UK’s 59 butterfly species, several varieties of orchid and a host of other invertebrates and wildflowers. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

feather-veined featherable featherback featherbed bog featherbedded featherbedding