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verb-intransitive. To engage in or promote featherbedding.

adj. Relating to or promoting featherbedding: featherbed rules.

n. A mattress stuffed with feathers

v. To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle

n. a bed filled with feathers.

n. a mattress stuffed with feathers.

n. A bed made of feathers; a mattress filled with feathers; a soft bed.

n. 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.

n. a mattress stuffed with feathers

v. treat with excessive indulgence

n. a mattress stuffed with feathers

v. hire more workers than are necessary

"I never knew before what an uninteresting thing a featherbed is – when you are obliged to hold it in your arms."

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