mollycoddle

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

Translation

vt. 過度に甘やかす
Word Forms
過去分詞mollycoddled
過去形mollycoddled
現在分詞mollycoddling
三人称単数mollycoddles
複数形mollycoddles

Real-world Examples

You don't have to mollycoddle me.

私を甘やかす必要はありません。

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?

私たちは若者をより長く甘やかしているのかもしれません。それは彼らを守り、世話をすることを意味します。

Source: 6 Minute English

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

誰かを甘やかすとき、その人を過度または不合理なほどの甘やかしや注意で扱っています。

Source: Word of the Day

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

それに関係なく、mollycoddleは「甘やかす」という意味のcoddleと、メアリーの愛称であるMollyという言葉を組み合わせて作られました。

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.

1850年代中頃の最初の使用例では、mollycoddleは名詞であり、軽蔑的で現在では時代遅れの私たちの現代の言葉「ウィンプ」の同義語でした。

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.

スペインでは、25歳未満の若者の46%が失業しています。これは、甘やかされた「正社員」と解雇しやすい「派遣社員」という二重構造があるためで、後者は若者に不均衡に多いです。

Source: The Economist - Comprehensive

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