Pamper
English
Verb
Pamper (third-person singular simple present Pampers, present participle Pampering, simple past and past participle Pampered)
- To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence
- (dated) to feed luxuriously
Synonyms
Thesaurus
baby, care for, caress, cater to, cherish, cocker, coddle, cosset, cradle, cultivate, dandle, dry-nurse, favor, feed, fondle, foster, give way to, gratify, humor, indulge, lavish care on, mollycoddle, mother, much, nourish, nurse, nurture, oblige, overindulge, pet, please, regale, satisfy, spoil, spoon-feed, suckle, sustain, tickle, wet-nurse, yield to
Etymology
From Middle English pamperen (“to cram with food”), from Middle Dutch *pamperen (“to cram with food”), frequentative of *pampen (“to stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *pampōnan (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”). Cognate with Flemish pamperen (“to cram with food, overindulge”), Middle Low German pampen (“to stuff oneself”), German dialectal pampfen (“to cram”), Danish dialectal pampe (“to boast, brag”).
