pampered adj.
饮食过量的, 饮食奢侈的
Pampered \Pam"pered\, a.
Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant; as,
pampered children. ``Pampered boughs.'' --Milton. ``Pampered
insolence.'' --Pope. -- {Pam"pered*ness}, n. --Bp. Hall.
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. ``A body . . . pampered
for corruption.'' --Dr. T. Dwight.
2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to
pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. --South.
- For the first encore, the orchestra teased and pampered the final ballet of Schubert's music for Rosamunde as if it were their favourite child.
- THE DOWNTURN in the Japanese economy has claimed another victim, the pampered university student.
- MORE MOMS get pampered as service gifts for Mother's Day increase.
- The bank is running an "At-Your-Service" sweepstakes and giving away prizes designed to make the winners feel pampered.
- Bresse farmers say this is just a protectionist excuse, as this disease is unknown among their pampered charges.
- But these institutions insist they are willing to pay more to be pampered.
- US workers who commute by bicycle are becoming pampered employees at many companies.
- Does the thirty-something generation insist, in this case, on being pampered even if it means some ground raising?
- By the age of seven he'd become a relic, kept alive, pampered and miserable in his luxurious prison, barely aware of the political turmoil outside.