pampering : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pampering	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pampering
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pampering adj gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires; "pampering parents often have spoilt children"; "a very pampering cruise experience" n the act of indulging or gratifying a desire [syn: indulgence, indulging, pampering, humoring]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pamper \Pam"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pampered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pampering}.] [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.] 1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. [bd]A body . . . pampered for corruption.[b8] --Dr. T. Dwight. 2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. --South.