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- verb Present participle of
posset .
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Examples
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It's nothing like her normal posseting after milk it's proper stinky sick!
tequilamonky Diary Entry tequilamonky 2009
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Here, with an aphorism worthy a place in The Pilgrim'S Scrip, she broke off to go posseting for her dear invalid.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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A young lady who can have male friends, as well as friends of her own sex, is not usually pressing and secret in her confidences, possibly because such a young lady is not always nursing baby-passions, and does not require her sex's coddling and posseting to keep them alive.
Evan Harrington — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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A young lady who can have male friends, as well as friends of her own sex, is not usually pressing and secret in her confidences, possibly because such a young lady is not always nursing baby-passions, and does not require her sex's coddling and posseting to keep them alive.
Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Here, with an aphorism worthy a place in The Pilgrim'S Scrip, she broke off to go posseting for her dear invalid.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Here, with an aphorism worthy a place in The Pilgrim'S Scrip, she broke off to go posseting for her dear invalid.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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A young lady who can have male friends, as well as friends of her own sex, is not usually pressing and secret in her confidences, possibly because such a young lady is not always nursing baby-passions, and does not require her sex's coddling and posseting to keep them alive.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
copse commented on the word posseting
usage: I smell of sour milk. No thanks to baby posseting on my tshirt.
December 2, 2010
mollusque commented on the word posseting
Does that make deposset an antonym of deposit?
December 2, 2010