featherbed English

Meaning featherbed meaning

What does featherbed mean?

featherbed

— verb hire more workers than are necessary

— verb (= pamper, mollycoddle) treat with excessive indulgence grandparents often pamper the children Let's not mollycoddle our students!

— noun (= feather bed) a mattress stuffed with feathers

Synonyms featherbed synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as featherbed?

featherbed English » English

feather bed

pamper

mollycoddle

cosset

coddle

cocker

spoil

indulge

baby

feather-bed