Crossword clues for cosset
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cosset \Cos"set\, v. t. To treat as a pet; to fondle.
She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made
much of.
--O. W.
Holmes.
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Cosset \Cos"set\ (k?s"s?t), n. [Cf. AS. cotsetla cottager, G. kossat, kothsasse, fr. kot, koth E. (cot) hut, and cf. also E. cade,
, cot a cade lam
] A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "to fondle, caress, indulge," from a noun (1570s) meaning "lamb brought up as a pet" (applied to persons from 1590s), perhaps from Old English cot-sæta "one who dwells in a cot." Related: Coseted; coseting. Compare German Hauslamm, Italian casiccio.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a pet; often specifically a pet lamb 2 a cosseted person, an indulged person. vb. (context transitive English) to treat like a pet; to overly indulge
WordNet
v. treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
Wikipedia
Cosset may refer to:
- François Cosset (c. 1610 – c. 1673), French composer
- Sébastien Cosset (born 1975), French illustrator
- Helicopter parent, also referred to as "cosseting parent"
Usage examples of "cosset".
Surely these plainspoken men could understand the humble life of this young woman better than the cosseted scions of planter families ever would.
A place of gentle therapy, relaxation and rest, where children of all ages could play and laugh and sleep, secure in the knowledge that they were loved and cosseted and cared for.
I was still there, being cosseted by Cigfolla whenever I emerged from my uneasy dreams, when I heard shouting from outside the house, and sitting up, saw the flicker of torches in the darkness through the open door.
His edicts when he published them were most imposing: no one would be uninspected, no one would be cosseted, no one would buy his way out with bribery, the jury roster would smell sweeter than a bank of violets in Campania.
I have three proteges to train, and no time to waste on cosseting a daydreamer.
Several times Jonathan could hear him clumping into the bedroom to have a peek at Cosset, who still snored away.
It would have given me a thrust of fear but that I already knew (and had seen growing signs of it lately) how that wife of his cockered and cosseted him, like a hen with one chicken — not, I'd swear, through any true fears, but to keep him at home and away from the palace.
Tarma had her badly worried lately with all the cosseting she'd been doing -- like she was trying to keep Kethry wrapped safely in lambswool all the time -- but at this moment Kethry was rather glad to have the cosseting.
Tarma had her badly worried lately with all the cosseting she'd been doing—like she was trying to keep Kethry wrapped safely in lambswool all the time—but at this moment Kethry was rather glad to have the cosseting.
Tarma had her badly worried lately with all the cosseting she'd been doinglike she was trying to keep Kethry wrapped safely in lambswool all the timebut at this moment Kethry was rather glad to have the cosseting.
Indeed, I don't, so don't go expecting any cosseting from me, young man.
He would treat her with every care and consideration, pleasing her in bed and cosseting her out of it.
There was Trandilar, great Queen, mistress of Beguilement, cosseting Peter in a tone that turned me red and eager, not with envy but with some hot feeling it was not easy to put down.
Soon I'll hear her primping herself in the bedroom, cosseting her curves in silk and lace.
But the senior stars were there Caduta Massi, cosseting the enfeebled Prince Kasimir, and Lorne Guyland, in a robotic dinner-jacket with vampire Thursday on his robot arm.