different between rasher vs coddle

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?sh'?(r), IPA^(key): /??æ??(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ??(?)

Etymology 1

rash +? -er.

Adjective

rasher

1. comparative form of rash: more rash

Etymology 2

Unknown origin. Said to be rasure.

Noun

rasher (plural rashers)

1. (Britain, Ireland) A strip of bacon.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2

     He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy.

   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter III:^[2]

     Would you like a bite of something? None of your damned lawdeedaw airs here. The rich of a rasher fried with a herring?

   • 2010 March 25, Irish Independent, "Put to the test: Back rashers":

     Thick-cut, thin-cut or flavoured, sometimes there is nothing nicer than a rasher on toast or a crispy rasher as part of a full fry up.

Synonyms

• collop
• slice
• strip

Translations

Verb

rasher (third-person singular simple present rashers, present participle rashering, simple past and past participle rashered)

1. (transitive) To cut into rashers.
   • 1956, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by command (volume 26, page 26)

     Most of the bacon sold is rashered or prepared as boiling joints in the retail shop, but recently there have been experiments in central arrangements for rashering bacon and its subsequent distribution pre-packed.

Anagrams

• Harers, Sharer, rehras, sharer

English

Etymology

Probably from caudle. Compare British dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?d?l/
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Verb

coddle (third-person singular simple present coddles, present participle coddling, simple past and past participle coddled)

1. (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
   • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, chapter 10 “Ethel and her Relations” (ebook):

     How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?

2. (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
   • 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World, volume 1, page 222 of 1699 edition:

     It [the guava fruit] bakes as well as a Pear, and it may be coddled, and it makes good Pies.

3. (transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.

Synonyms

• (treat gently): cosset, pamper, posset, spoil; see also Thesaurus:pamper
• (cook slowly): simmer

Derived terms

• coddled egg
• mollycoddle

Related terms

• scald

Translations

Noun

coddle (plural coddles)

1. An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
2. (archaic) An effeminate person.

Anagrams

• codled