pamper
Plural: pampers
Verb
Verb Forms: pampered, pampering, pampers
- To treat with excessive indulgence; to coddle.
- treat with excessive indulgence
- "grandparents often pamper the children"
- To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
- To feed luxuriously.
- To put someone in pampers (a diaper).
Noun
- Alternative form of pampers.
Examples
- Some players PAMPER their ’S’ tiles, saving them for crucial plural plays.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English pamperen (“to cram with food”), from Middle Dutch *pamperen (“to cram with food”), frequentative of *pampen (“to stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *pamp- (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”), equivalent to pamp + -er.
Cognate with West Flemish pamperen (“to cram with food, overindulge”), Middle Low German pampen (“to stuff oneself”), dialectal German pampfen (“to cram”), dialectal Danish pampe (“to boast, brag”).
Synonyms
baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, spoil, chuckle, cuddle, dandle, make much, nustle, pamper, pander, pettle, posset, tidder
Scrabble Score: 12
pamper: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpamper: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pamper: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary