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Mollycoddle

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1863, OED Evaluation: N/A

To coddle, pamper; to treat in an over-indulgent or excessively protective way

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Always competitions. Like ah, and it was- and no one was um, ah kind-of mollycoddled, if you were out, you were out. Like you-know-what-I-mean? Like it was...
To overprotect
Speaker: Joyce Dowell, Gender: Female, Age at interview: 57, Interview: 2007, Belleville
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