pamper

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: pam=per

CIDE DICTIONARY

pamper, v. t. [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.].

•  To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.  Dr. T. Dwight.  [1913 Webster]
•  To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination.  South.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pamper, v.tr.
1 overindulge (a person, taste, etc.), cosset.
2 spoil (a person) with luxury.

Derivative

pamperer n.

Etymology

ME, prob. of LG or Du. orig.

THESAURUS

pamper

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

ROGET THESAURUS

pamper

Gluttony

N gluttony, greed, avarice, greediness, voracity, epicurism, good living, high living, edacity, gulosity, crapulence, guttling, guzzling, pantophagy, good cheer, blow out, feast, gastronomy, batterie de cuisine, epicure, bon vivant, gourmand, glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome, gourmet, v, gormandize, gorge, overgorge, overeat oneself, engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff, guttle, guzzle, bolt, devour, gobble up, gulp, raven, eat out of house and home, have the stomach of an ostrich, play a good knife and fork, pamper, gluttonous, greedy, gormandizing, edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish, avaricious, selfish, pampered, overfed, overgorged, jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.

Intemperance

VB be intemperate, indulge, exceed, live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog, give a loose to indulgence, wallow in voluptuousness, plunge into dissipation, revel, rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats, slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst, swill, pamper.