cosset
- to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.
- a lamb brought up without its dam; pet lamb.
- any pet.
Origin of cosset
Examples from the Web for cosseted
Contemporary Examples of cosseted
At best, if the stories are true, you sound petulant, cosseted, and bratty.
Needless to say fewer Scottish politicians were educated in such a cosseted environment.
The truth, which The Royals avoids addressing, is that the royal family is a cosseted, well-funded machine.
Historical Examples of cosseted
And you always a-telling me as squire said he wasn't to be coddled and cosseted.
Great Uncle Hoot-TootMrs. Molesworth
Then he says: "I wonder why he cosseted up to us last night in the garden so!"
Somehow GoodWilliam de Morgan
They have been cosseted and comforted and the devil has gone out of their blood.
The Path of the KingJohn Buchan
Boys were not cosseted in those days, but made to feel the rod and keep their place.
Confessions of BoyhoodJohn Albee
I hope the kind old goodwife is well, who cosseted me so lovingly.'
The Herd Boy and His HermitCharlotte M. Yonge
cosset
- to pamper; coddle; pet
- any pet animal, esp a lamb
Word Origin for cosset
Word Origin and History for cosseted
cosset
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. Cf. German Hauslamm, Italian casiccio.