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 cosseting
Contemporary Examples of cosseting
You may well be about to embark on four days of cosseting, eating, drinking, and sleeping.
I have no cosseting and protection, nor am I invited to the same parties.
Historical Examples of cosseting
I think you're cosseting me up altogether and I don't like the white bread so well!
Hortus InclususJohn Ruskin
First of all there was the usual ceremony of “cosseting” and drying tears.
Tom, Dick and HarryTalbot Baines Reed
But it seemed to Maurice that he needed as much attention and cosseting as a woman.
The GraftonsArchibald Marshall
She is the very soul of impartiality; but there is no cosseting.
But cosseting and coddling in a warm house will never restore me.
An Alabaster BoxMary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
cosset
- to pamper; coddle; pet
- any pet animal, esp a lamb
Word Origin for cosset
Word Origin and History for cosseting
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.