mollycoddle

[US]/ˈmɒlikɒdl/
[UK]/ˈmɑːlikɑːdl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. تدليل بشكل مفرط
Word Forms
Past Participlemollycoddled
Past Tensemollycoddled
Present Participlemollycoddling
Third Person Singularmollycoddles
Pluralmollycoddles

Real-world Examples

You don't have to mollycoddle me.

لست بحاجة إلى أن تدلّني أو تحمّلني.

Source: Rick and Morty Season 2 (Bilingual)

Could it be we are mollycoddling young people for longer - that means protecting them and looking after them?

هل يمكن أن نبالغ في حمايتهم ورعايتهم لفترة أطول - وهذا يعني حمايتهم والاعتناء بهم؟

Source: 6 Minute English

When you mollycoddle someone, you are treating that person with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence or attention.

عندما تبالغ في حماية شخص ما، فإنك تعامله بلطف أو باعتناء مفرط أو سخيف.

Source: Word of the Day

Regardless, mollycoddle was formed by combining the " pamper" sense of coddle with the word Molly, a nickname for Mary.

بغض النظر، تشكلت كلمة 'mollycoddle' من خلال الجمع بين معنى 'تدليل' كلمة 'coddle' والاسم 'Molly'، وهو لقب لمريم.

Source: Word of the Day

In its earliest known uses in the mid-1800s, mollycoddle was a noun, a disparaging and now-dated synonym of our modern word wimp.

في أقدم استخداماتها المعروفة في منتصف القرن التاسع عشر، كانت كلمة 'mollycoddle' اسمًا، وهي مرادف ازدراءي ومتقادم لكلمتنا الحديثة 'wimp'.

Source: Word of the Day

In Spain 46% of young people under the age of 25 are out of work because there is a two-tier system, with mollycoddled “permanent” workers and easy-to-fire “temporary” workers, who are disproportionately young.

في إسبانيا، 46٪ من الشباب دون سن 25 عامًا عاطلون عن العمل بسبب وجود نظام من الدرجتين، مع عمال "دائمين" يتم تدليلهم وعمال "مؤقتين" يسهل طردهم، وهم في الغالب أصغر سنًا.

Source: The Economist - Comprehensive

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