featherbed

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A mattress stuffed with feathers.
2. isim An area of bog where a layer of moss covers a pool of water or mud, presenting a hazard to walkers who may fall through it. (Also in UK and Irish placenames.)

   “[…] bog. The writers and the old fellows you meet in pubs will tell you to look out for grass or 'bright green areas', and to fear the land that looks the easiest; but bogs - 'featherbeds', the locals call them - might be marked[…]”

3. isim A soft, slow pitch of predictable bounce.
4. fiil To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.
5. fiil To engage in featherbedding; to employ more workers than necessary to fulfill a labor union requirement.