featherbed
IPA: fˈɛðɝbɛd
noun
- A mattress stuffed with feathers.
- (UK, Dartmoor) A bog covered by a layer of moss, presenting a hazard to walkers.
verb
- (transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.
- (intransitive) To engage in featherbedding; to employ more workers than necessary to fulfill a labor union requirement.
feather bed
IPA: fˈɛðɝbˈɛd
noun
- Alternative form of featherbed [A mattress stuffed with feathers.]
feather-bed
IPA: fˈɛðɝbd
verb
- Alternative spelling of featherbed [(transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.]
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Examples of "featherbed" in Sentences
Examples of "feather-bed" in Sentences
- He laughed, pulling me into the great pink feather-bed.
- We note with interest the feather-bed on which Helen Bailey has fallen, after her exit from the boys' club that Sir Nick Macpherson runs at HM Treasury.
- Note—Hilarious rumour of Johnny Rochester having his clothes and money stolen while he was with a wench, walking home stark naked, only to return (clothed) to find that is was the wench who had stolen the clothes in the first place (and stuffed them into her feather-bed).
- The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.
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