cosset
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Dat ar' boy trains roun' arter his mudder like a cosset, he does.
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- transitive verb To pamper.
- 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
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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
- âNature is no sentimentalist, â” does not cosset or pamper us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- 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)/
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