Translation please

[mollykins]

of the following, I know it roughly means happy birthday but i'm not sure on the last bit.

Un très joyeux anniversaire Nicola! J'espère que tu as été gâtée!
Bisous

[mike11111]

I know, strange isn't it? I have no satisfactory explanation. I know that 'baiser' as a verb, when followed by a direct object in a strictly formal sense means to kiss, as in;

"Je voudrais bien vous baiser la main" - I would like to kiss your hand. However,

"Je voudrais bien vous baiser", is likely to result in a resounding smack across the chops.

[Prudie]

Bit like 'I'd like to give you a kiss' and 'I'd like to give you one' I suppose!

[Eve]

I always figured it was some kind of colloquial use which then fell into more usual, if not polite, parlance.

I remember being warned of the dangers of using it as a verb while studying french by a rather embarrassed french teacher although probably better than the alternative.

I remember a male friend trying to sayto his host family on an exchange trip that he was full after a meal and ended up announcing he was pregnant.

I also remember a rather unfortunate incident in a fast food restaurant in Spain with a bit of a mix up over the word chicken.

[mollykins]

Do you think it's odd how duck and *uck are one letter different and so are the french words for both of them . . .