About The Word Cosset
Learn about the word Cosset to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Cosset definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Cosset
| Cosset Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Cosset?
[v] treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cosset: baby | cocker | coddle | featherbed | indulge | mollycoddle | pamper | spoil Related Terms | Find terms related to Cosset: care for | caress | cater to | cherish | cocker | coddle | cradle | cultivate | dandle | dry-nurse | favor | feed | fondle | foster | give way to | gratify | humor | indulge | lavish care on | mollycoddle | mother | nourish | nurse | nurture | oblige | pamper | pat | pet | please | satisfy | spoil | spoon-feed | suckle | sustain | wet-nurse | yield to See Also | do by | handle | treat Cosset In Webster's Dictionary \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, a., cot a cade lamb.]
A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in
general.
\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. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Wasting ‐ a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [n]…
- Culicidae ‐ mosquitoes
- Hydroxyacetic acid ‐ a translucent crystalline compound found in sugar cane and sugar…
- Vesuvius ‐ a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; erupted…
- Starwort ‐ low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped…
- Fraser fir ‐ small fast-growing but short-lived fir of southern Alleghenies…
- Inexorability ‐ mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or…
- Anti-semitic ‐ discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [adj]…
- Katharobe ‐ an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic…
- Synagrops ‐ a genus of…