Excessively-attentive behavior, but from one or more male individuals who are treating you in a "caring dad" manner. Opposite of "smothering" --- i.e., overly-close/coddling treatment from one or more "fussing and fluttering" humans of da female persuasion.
During Indiana Jones's growing-up years, Henry Sr. was always trying to make up for Junior's deceased mom's not being there to help nurture and care for him, and so Henry Sr. did his best to provide Indy with "sfathering treatment"; unfortunately --- in his valiant attempts to not subject Little Man to "smothering" --- he went too far in da other direction, and thus da flowering-into-adulthood Indy felt largely ignored and unloved on a personal level.
by QuacksO April 22, 2021