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Definition of 'featherbed' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) feather bed, featherbed
a mattress stuffed with feathers

2. (verb) pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
treat with excessive indulgence
"grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

3. (verb) featherbed
hire more workers than are necessary

'featherbed' - Nearby Entries  

feather ball  feather bed  feather boa  featherbed  featherbedding  featherbrained  featheredged  



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