The word "coddle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone is treating someone else with excessive care and protection, often to the point of spoiling them. For example, you could say, "He likes to coddle his daughter by buying her the newest gadgets."
It is now at once the twee height of Englishnessbut also the most basic solution to any problem, a coddle in a mug.
You want a sauce thick enough that it can swaddle and coddle those eggs and assert itself in each mouthful.
"We didn't coddle or conciliate with the dictators in Iran".
But in the vital area of economic policy, she still does not offer France the radical reforms that it must undergo if it is to raise growth and cut unemployment: she is too inclined to spend money, to protect the interests of insiders and to coddle the public sector.In this section When everything connects Brace yourself, Britain It's Sarko v Ségo Braveheart Will Africa ever get it right?
Reprints Related items After the EU summit: And now let's have another look at the road mapDec 19th 2002 Mainland Russia, Kaliningrad and the EU: Between two worldsJun 27th 2002Up to now Moscow's approach has been to coddle Kaliningrad's economy.
Mark Muro, the main analyst behind the think-tank report, has identified seven industries and some 30 smaller niches that Nevada should coddle.
But is Mr Kerry the candidate who will bring democracy to the Middle East or who would continue to coddle the region's tyrants?
But America could not coddle Marcos indefinitely either.Such dilemmas will almost certainly revisit Mr Wolfowitz in his new job.
Those who coddle their farmers most, notably the European Union and Japan, would have to make even steeper cuts than America.These are exactly the goals to which the Doha round should aspire.
That is partly because Mr Cameron's party has tended to coddle the elderly, for example with its "triple-lock" on pensions, more than the young.
However many new justifications are invented for the government to pick winners, and coddle losers, it will remain a bad old idea.
