verb
coddle
Cook gently in water below boiling.
The cook coddled the eggs in hot water.
Etymology
The gentle cooking sense is older than the pampering sense. They share a word family whose deeper origin is uncertain.
More examples
- She lowered the covered cup into water to coddle the egg gently.
- Coddle the eggs rather than boiling them rapidly.
- The recipe calls for coddling the egg in its small dish.
Forms
coddle · coddles · coddled · coddling