mollycoddle in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for mollycoddle in the English»French Dictionary

mollycoddle [Brit ˈmɒlɪkɒd(ə)l, Am ˈmɑliˌkɑdl] VB trans

mollycoddle

dorloter

Translations for mollycoddle in the French»English Dictionary

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materner (à l'excès)

to mollycoddle, to baby

mollycoddle in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for mollycoddle in the English»French Dictionary

mollycoddle [ˈmɒlɪkɒdl, Am ˈmɑ:lɪkɑ:dl] VB trans pej inf

mollycoddle

couver

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Now it's all antibacterial wipes, child massage classes, mollycoddling and worrying whether they might fall.

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We were fortunate not to be mollycoddled and fussed over like today's youngsters.

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Don't grow plants that need mollycoddling -- the climate is changing, and they need to toughen up!

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It's much better fun, because you're not mollycoddled and it shows that these people have to get into this world.

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Every day would bring fresh joy -- from majestic stags standing proudly in the snow to motherly swans mollycoddling their cygnets.

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Their words of encouragement always mollycoddle you to wake up in the midnight full of enthusiasm ready to go to school in the morning.

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Transfer to a good-sized pot and mollycoddle with good compost and watering.

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We are always talking about encouraging our students to be risk-takers... and then we ban and limit things and mollycoddle them...

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By carrying on like this we are nurturing and mollycoddling victimhood and it is having profound impacts.

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Are those thugs, who were spurned by a promising woman resulting in her conscience exit from politics, being mollycoddled?

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