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have been cosseting

  • present perfect progressive
    of cosset.
    cosset
    verb (used with object)
    to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.

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Well, Mr. Buckley," said Lee, "I have been cosseting this little beast up in the hopes you'd accept it as a present.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley