pamper

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to indulge with excessive attention, comfort, or kindness

   The spa pampers guests with massages and fine meals.

Simplified etymology

Pamper originally meant “cram with food” and developed the sense “indulge or spoil” in the mid-16th century. It is probably of Low German or Dutch origin and is associated with German dialectal pampfen, “cram” or “gorge.” A proposed connection with pap, perhaps based on Latin pappare, “to eat,” remains uncertain.

From late Middle English pamperen 'to cram with food', probably of Low German or Dutch origin (compare Low German pampen 'to gorge, cram'), of imitative or expressive formation.

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