English-Thai Dictionary

cosset

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COSSET

n.[G., a house. ] A lamb brought up by hand, or without the aid of the dam.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COSSET

Cos "set (ks "st ), n. Etym: [Cf. AS. cotsetla cottager, G. kossat,kothsasse, fr. kot, koth E. (cot ) hut, and cf. also E. cade, a., cot a cade lamb. ]

 

Defn: A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

 

COSSET

COSSET Cos "set, v. t.

 

Defn: To treat as a pet; to fondle. She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. O. W. Holmes.

 

COSSETTE

COSSETTE Cos *sette ", n. [F.]

 

Defn: One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cosset

cos set |ˈkäsət ˈkɑsət | ▶verb ( cossets, cosseting, cosseted ) [ with obj. ] care for and protect in an overindulgent way: all her life she'd been cosseted by her family. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child ): probably from Anglo-Norman French coscet ‘cottager, ’ from Old English cotsǣta ‘cottar. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

cosset

cos ¦set |ˈkɒsɪt | ▶verb ( cossets, cosseting, cosseted ) [ with obj. ] care for and protect in an overindulgent way: all her life she'd been cosseted by her family. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child ): probably from Anglo-Norman French coscet ‘cottager ’, from Old English cotsǣta ‘cottar ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

cosset

cosset verb it was hurtful to them to see their father cosseting his stepchildren: pamper, indulge, overindulge, mollycoddle, coddle, baby, pet, mother, nanny, nursemaid, pander to, spoil; wait on someone hand and foot.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

cosset

cosset verb before her papa died she had been spoiled and cosseted: pamper, indulge, overindulge, mollycoddle, coddle, baby, pet, mother, nanny, nursemaid, pander to, spoon-feed, feather-bed, spoil; wrap in cotton wool, wait on someone hand and foot, cater to someone's every whim, kill with kindness; archaic cocker.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cosset

cos set /kɑ́sət |kɔ́sɪt /動詞 他動詞 〈人など 〉を甘やかす, かわいがる, 過保護に育てる (pamper ) (!しばしば受け身で ) .