pamper Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb treat with excessive indulgence
    featherbed; cosset; cocker; mollycoddle; spoil; indulge; baby; coddle.
    • grandparents often pamper the children
    • Let's not mollycoddle our students!

WordNet

Pam"per transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Pampered ; present participle & verbal noun Pampering
Definitions
  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.
  2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. South.

Webster 1913