Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child.
- v. To give in to; gratify: He pampered his ambition for wealth and fame.
- v. Archaic To indulge with rich food; glut.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To treat luxuriously; indulge with rich food or with luxurious ease and comforts; gratify to the full with whatever delights or ministers to ease and luxurious living.
- To indulge one's self.
Wiktionary
- v. To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
- v. dated To feed luxuriously.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut.
- v. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess.
WordNet 3.0
- v. treat with excessive indulgence
Etymologies
- From Middle English pamperen ("to cram with food"), from Middle Dutch *pamperen (“to cram with food”), frequentative of *pampen (“to stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *pampōnan (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”). Cognate with Middle Low German pampen ("to stuff oneself"), German dialectal pampfen ("to cram"), Danish dialectal pampe ("to boast, brag"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pamperen, probably of Low German origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He started to wire her money so that she could "pamper" herself and said things that made her feel "special.”
The Huffington Post: Judith Acosta: Turned Against Our Natures: When Good People Do Bad Things
“I had been putting it off, but I knew that if there was a time to "pamper" myself, it was now.”
“Five: Running with Greg's use of the word "pamper," McCain's sense of manhood is threatened by being Mr. Cindy McCain (they are her houses) and the POW narrative restores this idea that yes, gawddamit, I'm a man's man.”
McCain Himself Invokes POW Past To Deflect Criticism Of Houses Gaffe
“Whilst it is most important that nothing should be done to give colour to the idea sedulously promoted by the Hindu politician that Government intend to favour, or, as he generally puts it, to "pamper," the”
“Dogs are not little furry people, and much of what humans do to "pamper" their dogs is unhealthy and makes them miserable rather than happy.”
“On Thursday, Feb. 5, Canine to Five is hosting a small dog "pamper" party to debut its new small dog area.”
“A couple of local businesses are trying to provide options for parents to "pamper" their babies and go green at the same time.”
“The new boutique at the cancer center will "pamper" women who are diagnosed with the disease,”
“Organiser Catherine Tyson is hoping to "pamper" and "motivate" women through the "Me in My Life" seminar scheduled for 5-7 December at the South Sound Civic Centre in Grand Cayman.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pamper’.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL P
pacifistic, pacify, palatable, palaver, palliate, pallid, palpable, pamper, panacea, pandemic, pandemonium, panegyric and 209 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
salvo, taboo, redoubtable, foment, intransigence, disingenuous, infarction, obviate, junta, aetiology, expedited, gerrymandering and 201 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Ugliest Words Ever
words that I refuse to say out loud.
tuna, uranus, bulbous, vaginal, rectum, cunnilingus, flatulance, pedagogy, blooper, booger, beefy, polyp and 116 more...
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deftly, coracle, delectable, snug, sprawly, disquieting, dismiss, peer, chimney, cosy, nursery, peep and 48 more...
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words I fucking hate
feet, moist, gout, food, squirt, preggers, cummerbund, stoked, wonky, bugaboo, chunk, loin and 27 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 117
hop, swing, napkin, pamper, stare down, outburst, inappropriate, amused, require, fearful, drop a class, butter up and 9 more...
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sunsprouts's Words
dropsy, quell, dreamy, shy, babe, equus, gallop, fox, racecar, corpuscle, lachrymose, mugwump and 38 more...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
heather, tussock, induce, calcareous, pamper, ought, deranged, dismay
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Regular Use
This contains all very commom words used on regular basis but confuses to understand clearly the purpose of use
ramification, vicinity, pamper, mediocre, glimpse, shrewed, shaggy, unless otherwise, fart, abyss
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