cosset

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Dat ar' boy trains roun' arter his mudder like a cosset, he does.

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  1. transitive verb To pamper.
  2. noun A pet, especially a pet lamb.

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  • Caellach Gwain, I will see to it that no one else will cosset you from this moment on. —  Elvenborn
  • It was all just one more example of how everything that Keman did only caused Alara to spoil and cosset him more, and everything Myre did was somehow wrong. —  Elvenblood
  • Dat ar' boy trains roun' arter his mudder like a cosset, he does. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859
  • There were a great many people in Court circles who distrusted 'the Karsite, " besides those who had no reason to love him because he did not cosset their children. —  Exile's Valor
  • “Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. —  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

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  1. Possibly from Anglo-Norman coscet, pet lamb, from Middle English cotsete, cottage-dweller, from Old English cotsǣta : cot, cottage + sǣta, -sǣte, inhabitant; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

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/ (kŏsˈĭt)/
ahd pronounces "cosset"
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