Search Result:featherbed
Overview of noun featherbed
The noun featherbed has 1 sense
- feather bed, featherbed -- (a mattress stuffed with feathers)
Overview of verb featherbed
The verb featherbed has 2 senses
- pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge -- (treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!")
- featherbed -- (hire more workers than are necessary)