'Pamper' definitions:
Definition of 'pamper'
(from WordNet)
verb
Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
Definition of 'Pamper'
From: GCIDE
- Pamper \Pam"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pampering.] [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered for corruption." --Dr. T. Dwight. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pamper'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- baby,
- care for,
- caress,
- cater to,
- cherish,
- cocker,
- coddle,
- cosset,
- cradle,
- cultivate,
- dandle,
- dry-nurse,
- favor,
- feed,
- fondle,
- foster,
- give way to,
- gratify,
- humor,
- indulge,
- lavish care on,
- mollycoddle,
- mother,
- much,
- nourish,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- oblige,
- overindulge,
- pet,
- please,
- regale,
- satisfy,
- spoil,
- spoon-feed,
- suckle,
- sustain,
- tickle,
- wet-nurse,
- yield to