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FEATHERBED, noun. A mattress stuffed with feathers

FEATHERBED, verb. (transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle

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FEATHERBED, noun. A mattress stuffed with feathers.

FEATHERBED, verb. Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!".

FEATHERBED, verb. Hire more workers than are necessary.

Wise words

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Alfred Adler