Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - cocooned

1. If someone is cocooned in blankets or clothes, they are completely wrapped in them. She is comfortably cocooned in pillows. ...my snugly cocooned baby sleeping in his pram. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ in n 2. If you say that someone is cocooned, you mean that they are isolated and protected from everyday life and problems. She was cocooned in a private world of privilege... They were cocooned from the experience of poverty. = cloistered ADJ: oft ADJ in/from n COD (cods or cod) 1. Cod are a type of large edible fish. N-VAR • Cod is this fish eaten as food. A Catalan speciality is to serve salt cod cold. N-UNCOUNT 2. You use cod to describe something which is not genuine and which is intended to deceive or amuse people by looking or sounding like the real thing. (BRIT) ...a cod documentary on what animals think of living in a zoo. = mock ADJ: ADJ n