Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bed made of feathers; a mattress filled with feathers; a soft bed.
- noun The feather-poke, a small bird of the genus Phylloscopus, as the willow-warbler, P. trochilus, or chiff-chaff, P. rufus: so called because it uses feathers in making its nest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a mattress stuffed with feathers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mattress stuffed withfeathers - verb transitive To treat someone with
excessive indulgence ; topamper ,cosset ormollycoddle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mattress stuffed with feathers
- verb treat with excessive indulgence
- noun a mattress stuffed with feathers
- verb hire more workers than are necessary
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Examples
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I never knew before what an uninteresting thing a featherbed is – when you are obliged to hold it in your arms.
Melbourne House 1907
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The knight slept as a soldier would, to whom a featherbed is a rarity, and who wakes not till he hears the blast of the reveille.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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He was now going to a home provided by benevolent persons as a kind of featherbed to catch the falling workhouse boy.
Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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It also said that poor pitches will also include batsmen-friendly 'featherbed' surfaces that the ICC considers a serious threat to the game.
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I wish we were back home, and I could still burrow into her as if she were a featherbed.
Squall Susan Rukeyser 2012
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The same doesn't happen when they prepare a featherbed.
'Bad' Pitches Make for Cracking Cricket Richard Lord 2011
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“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed”
How about those Navy Seals on the Bainbridge sniping the pirates and saving Capt. Roberts? 2009
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“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed”
How about those Navy Seals on the Bainbridge sniping the pirates and saving Capt. Roberts? 2009
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What kind of bed does the protagonist sleep in - pallet, featherbed, mattress and springs, antigravity plate?
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His body had been hard as a rock and yet as comforting as a featherbed.
A Different Light Mariah Stewart 2010
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