The difference between Coddle and Spoil
When used as nouns, coddle means an irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions, whereas spoil means (also in plural: spoils) plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
When used as verbs, coddle means to treat gently or with great care, whereas spoil means to strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
check bellow for the other definitions of Coddle and Spoil
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Coddle as a verb (transitive):
To treat gently or with great care.
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Coddle as a verb (transitive):
To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
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Coddle as a verb (transitive):
To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
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Coddle as a noun:
An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
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Coddle as a noun (archaic):
An effeminate person.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
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Spoil as a verb (ambitransitive, archaic):
To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
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Spoil as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive):
To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive):
To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
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Spoil as a verb (intransitive):
Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
Examples:
"Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil."
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Spoil as a verb (transitive):
To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
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Spoil as a verb (transitive):
To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
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Spoil as a noun:
(Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
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Spoil as a noun (uncountable):
Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.