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pamper verb [ ˈpampə ]

• indulge with every attention, comfort, and kindness; spoil.
• "famous people just love being pampered"
Similar: spoil, indulge, overindulge, cosset, mollycoddle, coddle, baby, pet, wait on someone hand and foot, cater to someone's every whim, overparent, humour, pander to, wrap in cotton wool, feather-bed, cocker,
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘cram with food’): probably of Low German or Dutch origin; compare with German dialect pampfen ‘cram, gorge’; perhaps related to pap1.


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