cosher

[kosh-er]

verb (used with object)

to treat with special fondness; pamper.

Origin of cosher

1860–65; perhaps conflation of cocker³ with uncertain elements; Hiberno-English cosher to feast, live at the expense of kinsmen (< Irish cóisir feast, retinue) is remote in sense

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Then, at the exact second that the ambulance is due, along comes their 'cosher,' knocks down the policeman on duty.
Jack O' Judgment
Edgar Wallace

British Dictionary definitions for cosher

cosher

verb Irish

(tr) to pamper or coddle

(intr) to live or be entertained at the expense of another

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Word Origin and History for cosher

1630s, phonetic spelling of Irish coisir "feast, entertainment."