overpamper

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English

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ pamper.

Verb

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overpamper (third-person singular simple present overpampers, present participle overpampering, simple past and past participle overpampered)

  1. (transitive) To pamper excessively.
    • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 15 p. 243:
      [] and of great Ganges tell, / Which when full India's showers inforceth him to swell, / Gilds with his glistering sands the over-pampered shore: []