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Cosset   /kˈɑsət/   Listen
Cosset

verb
1.
Treat with excessive indulgence.  Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil.  "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"






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"Cosset" Quotes from Famous Books



... milk-and-water looking thing she is," said Alice More; "they had better have kept their cosset at home; she will be calling, 'ma! ma!' ...
— Be Courteous • Mrs. M. H. Maxwell

... porly. When Massa Jim goes, 'pears like takin' de light right out her eyes. Dat ar' boy trains roun' arter his mudder like a cosset, he does. Lor', de house seems so still widout him!—can't a fly scratch his ear but it starts a body. Missy Marvyn she sent down, an' says, would you an' de Doctor an' Miss Mary please come ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various

... my dearest. I want you to be particularly agreeable to our young friend, la Peyrade. There's a friend, indeed! you'll soon have proofs of that! If you love me, cosset him well." ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac

... "Not cosset her and spoil her for the next week or two. Just leave her to herself and let her feel what she's doing. Think what Chowton Farm would be, and you with your business all slipping through ...
— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope

... When Massa Jim goes, 'pears like takin' de light right out her eyes. Dat ar' boy trains roun' arter his mudder like a cosset, he does. Lor', de house seems so still widout him!—can't a fly scratch his ear but it starts a body. Missy Marvyn she sent down, an' says, would you an' de Doctor an' Miss Mary please come ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various

... it is true, and even lay a good deal in bed; but this was more to satisfy the busy scruples of a locum tenens—a practitioner of the neighbourhood, who came daily to the prison to officiate in my absence—than to cosset a complaint that in its inactivity was purely negative. I could review what had happened with a calmness as profound as if I had read of it in a book. I could have wished to continue my duties, indeed, ...
— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes

... accompany her husband on what was now the customary Saturday visit, owing to the illness of her fourth child. Mrs Hamps was fighting chronic rheumatism at home. And Maggie had left the table to cosset Mrs Nixon, who of late received more help ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett



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