featherbed

See also: feather-bed and feather bed

English

Etymology

From feather +‎ bed.

Noun

featherbed (plural featherbeds)

1. A mattress stuffed with feathers.
2. (UK, Dartmoor) A bog covered by a layer of moss, presenting a hazard to walkers.

Alternative forms

• feather bed

Translations

a mattress stuffed with feathers

• Bulgarian: пухен дюшек m (puhen djušek)
• Finnish: höyhenpatja
• German: Federbett (de) n
• Hungarian: derékalj (hu)
• Ido: plumolito (io)
• Irish: leaba chlúimh (éan) f, leaba chluimhrí f
• Karelian: perinä
• Russian: пери́на (ru) f (perína), пухови́к (ru) m (puxovík)

Verb

featherbed (third-person singular simple present featherbeds, present participle featherbedding, simple past and past participle featherbedded)

1. (transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.
2. (intransitive) To engage in featherbedding; to employ more workers than necessary to fulfill a labor union requirement.

Alternative forms

• feather-bed

Translations

to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle

• Bulgarian: глезя (bg) (glezja), изнежвам (bg) (iznežvam)
• German: verwöhnen (de)
• Spanish: ser indulgente, consentir (es), mimar (es), tener entre algodones