colloq. [f. CODDLE v.2] One who coddles himself or is coddled. (Hence mollycoddle.)
1830. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. IV. (1863), 181. His grandmother herself could not be a greater coddle in her own venerable person.
1848. B. D. Walsh, Aristoph., Clouds, III. iii. The town Will pronounce you a mammy-sick coddle.
1870. Dasent, Annals Eventful Life (ed. 4), I. xii. 131. Aunt Mandeville was no coddle.
