Lexic.us

Definition of Featherbed

1. Verb. Treat with excessive indulgence. "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

2. Noun. A mattress stuffed with feathers.

3. Verb. Hire more workers than are necessary.

Definition of Featherbed

1. Noun. A mattress stuffed with feathers ¹

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Featherbed

1. [v -BEDDED, -BEDDING, -BEDS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Featherbed

feather bed feather beds feather boa feather duster feather dusters feather geranium feather in one's cap feather one's nest feather one's own nest feather palm

feather pen feather star feather wool featherback featherbed (current term) featherbedded featherbedding featherbeddings featherbeds featherbrain

featherbrained featherbrains featherdown feathered featheredge featheredged featheredges featheredging featheredness

Literary usage of Featherbed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Genealogy of the family of Gresham by Granville William G. Leveson Gower (1883)
"... and one featherbed and all belonging to it and one paire of sheets and one suit of my wearing ..."

2. The Prairie Schooner by William Francis Hooker (1918)
"featherbed, as the sun peeped over a rise in the land, waited impatiently. ... When the party finally got away Watson, turning to featherbed as they ..."

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