featherbed

English

Noun

featherbed (plural featherbeds)

1. A mattress stuffed with feathers

Alternative forms

• feather bed

Translations

A mattress stuffed with feathers

• Bulgarian: пухен дюшек (bg) (puhen djušek) m

• German: Federbett (de) n
• Hungarian: derékalj (hu)

Verb

featherbed (third-person singular simple present featherbeds, present participle featherbedding, simple past and past participle featherbedded)

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

Alternative forms

• feather-bed

Translations

to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle

• Bulgarian: глезя (bg) (glezja), изнежвам (bg) (iznežvam)

• German: verwöhnen (de)