Definition of cosset in English:

cosset

verbcosseted, cossets, cosseting ˈkɒsɪtˈkɑsət

[with object]

Care for and protect in an overindulgent way.
宠爱；溺爱
all her life she'd been cosseted by her family
她一生都被家人宠爱着。
Example sentencesExamples
- Here are a few drinks ideas to help cosset your mum on Mothering Sunday.
- This is the most delicately flavoured rhubarb there is, cosseted and pampered to keep its subtlety.
- After Zac, there is Yvan, the baby, who is cosseted and overfed, with pettishly long hair.
- The silence comes from an allegedly compassionate desire to protect or cosset the poor, rather than treating them like responsible adults.
- No other group in society has been so cosseted from the real world, so protected from the consequences of its own actions and so compensated for its own inadequacies.
- And it's not just pampered pooches and cosseted cats who are in with a chance of stealing the show.
- By the end of the first glass of champagne we had been cosseted, pampered and ready for whatever Jacques and Laurent might suggest!
- The young Howard Hughes was not helped by his over-protective mother who cosseted him to such an extent that he was not even allowed to go to school for fear he would not be properly looked after.
- The flowers and bushes are in bloom; flox cossets the rocks on the neighbor's front lawn; at night you can hear the burble of a waterfall across the street.
- But she worries about him, and cossets him - and then of course, my father, wonderful man though he is, realises he's got someone at his beck and call and plays up to it.
- You are quite cosseted throughout but at the end I felt vulnerable.
- Nothing cossets these hacks like the conviction that happy people aren't happy.
- Instead of unquestioned fealty to one's superior officer, an ambitious soldier might now have to think of cosseting the president and the public, via the media.
- Every woman wants to be adored, loved, cosseted and taken care of and protected.
- For a large part its because we've been cosseted and protected by America.
- The successful five were moved into a plush secret location with the kind of kitchen folks like us can only dream about; they were cosseted and counselled, indulged and admired.
- The full leather trim is standard, cosseting the occupants, and there are plenty of practical features to assist in making the journey that much more enjoyable.
- His target was the traditional social model, the set of protections and regulations that have cosseted European workers for so long.
- Since Christiane's doctor has warned her son that she must never experience any more shocks, Alex cossets his mother in their apartment.
- It seems that in Japanese there is simply no way to say something that simple without cosseting it heavily in a bunch of formal etiquette-stuff.
Synonyms
pamper, indulge, overindulge, mollycoddle, coddle, baby, pet, mother, nanny, nursemaid, pander to, spoon-feed, feather-bed, overparent, spoil
wrap in cotton wool, wait on someone hand and foot, cater to someone's every whim, kill with kindness
archaic cocker

Origin

Mid 16th century (as a noun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child): probably from Anglo-Norman French coscet 'cottager', from Old English cotsǣta 'cottar'.

In the 16th century a lamb brought up by hand as a pet was known as a cosset. The term was later used to refer to a spoiled child, and this is where the modern sense, ‘to pamper someone’, came from. The origin of the word is probably Old French coscet ‘cottager’. Compare pet

Rhymes

posset

Definition of cosset in US English:

cosset

verbˈkäsətˈkɑsət

[with object]

Care for and protect in an overindulgent way.
宠爱；溺爱
all her life she'd been cosseted by her family
她一生都被家人宠爱着。
Example sentencesExamples
- By the end of the first glass of champagne we had been cosseted, pampered and ready for whatever Jacques and Laurent might suggest!
- The silence comes from an allegedly compassionate desire to protect or cosset the poor, rather than treating them like responsible adults.
- His target was the traditional social model, the set of protections and regulations that have cosseted European workers for so long.
- After Zac, there is Yvan, the baby, who is cosseted and overfed, with pettishly long hair.
- You are quite cosseted throughout but at the end I felt vulnerable.
- But she worries about him, and cossets him - and then of course, my father, wonderful man though he is, realises he's got someone at his beck and call and plays up to it.
- And it's not just pampered pooches and cosseted cats who are in with a chance of stealing the show.
- The young Howard Hughes was not helped by his over-protective mother who cosseted him to such an extent that he was not even allowed to go to school for fear he would not be properly looked after.
- Since Christiane's doctor has warned her son that she must never experience any more shocks, Alex cossets his mother in their apartment.
- It seems that in Japanese there is simply no way to say something that simple without cosseting it heavily in a bunch of formal etiquette-stuff.
- Instead of unquestioned fealty to one's superior officer, an ambitious soldier might now have to think of cosseting the president and the public, via the media.
- This is the most delicately flavoured rhubarb there is, cosseted and pampered to keep its subtlety.
- For a large part its because we've been cosseted and protected by America.
- Here are a few drinks ideas to help cosset your mum on Mothering Sunday.
- The full leather trim is standard, cosseting the occupants, and there are plenty of practical features to assist in making the journey that much more enjoyable.
- No other group in society has been so cosseted from the real world, so protected from the consequences of its own actions and so compensated for its own inadequacies.
- The flowers and bushes are in bloom; flox cossets the rocks on the neighbor's front lawn; at night you can hear the burble of a waterfall across the street.
- The successful five were moved into a plush secret location with the kind of kitchen folks like us can only dream about; they were cosseted and counselled, indulged and admired.
- Nothing cossets these hacks like the conviction that happy people aren't happy.
- Every woman wants to be adored, loved, cosseted and taken care of and protected.
Synonyms
pamper, indulge, overindulge, mollycoddle, coddle, baby, pet, mother, nanny, nursemaid, pander to, spoon-feed, feather-bed, overparent, spoil

Origin

Mid 16th century (as a noun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child): probably from Anglo-Norman French coscet ‘cottager’, from Old English cotsǣta ‘cottar’.

单词	cosset
释义	Definition of cosset in English: cosset verbcosseted, cossets, cosseting ˈkɒsɪtˈkɑsət [with object] Care for and protect in an overindulgent way. 宠爱；溺爱 all her life she'd been cosseted by her family 她一生都被家人宠爱着。 Example sentencesExamples Here are a few drinks ideas to help cosset your mum on Mothering Sunday. This is the most delicately flavoured rhubarb there is, cosseted and pampered to keep its subtlety. After Zac, there is Yvan, the baby, who is cosseted and overfed, with pettishly long hair. The silence comes from an allegedly compassionate desire to protect or cosset the poor, rather than treating them like responsible adults. No other group in society has been so cosseted from the real world, so protected from the consequences of its own actions and so compensated for its own inadequacies. And it's not just pampered pooches and cosseted cats who are in with a chance of stealing the show. By the end of the first glass of champagne we had been cosseted, pampered and ready for whatever Jacques and Laurent might suggest! The young Howard Hughes was not helped by his over-protective mother who cosseted him to such an extent that he was not even allowed to go to school for fear he would not be properly looked after. The flowers and bushes are in bloom; flox cossets the rocks on the neighbor's front lawn; at night you can hear the burble of a waterfall across the street. But she worries about him, and cossets him - and then of course, my father, wonderful man though he is, realises he's got someone at his beck and call and plays up to it. You are quite cosseted throughout but at the end I felt vulnerable. Nothing cossets these hacks like the conviction that happy people aren't happy. Instead of unquestioned fealty to one's superior officer, an ambitious soldier might now have to think of cosseting the president and the public, via the media. Every woman wants to be adored, loved, cosseted and taken care of and protected. For a large part its because we've been cosseted and protected by America. The successful five were moved into a plush secret location with the kind of kitchen folks like us can only dream about; they were cosseted and counselled, indulged and admired. The full leather trim is standard, cosseting the occupants, and there are plenty of practical features to assist in making the journey that much more enjoyable. His target was the traditional social model, the set of protections and regulations that have cosseted European workers for so long. Since Christiane's doctor has warned her son that she must never experience any more shocks, Alex cossets his mother in their apartment. It seems that in Japanese there is simply no way to say something that simple without cosseting it heavily in a bunch of formal etiquette-stuff. Synonyms pamper, indulge, overindulge, mollycoddle, coddle, baby, pet, mother, nanny, nursemaid, pander to, spoon-feed, feather-bed, overparent, spoil wrap in cotton wool, wait on someone hand and foot, cater to someone's every whim, kill with kindness archaic cocker Origin Mid 16th century (as a noun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child): probably from Anglo-Norman French coscet 'cottager', from Old English cotsǣta 'cottar'. In the 16th century a lamb brought up by hand as a pet was known as a cosset. The term was later used to refer to a spoiled child, and this is where the modern sense, ‘to pamper someone’, came from. The origin of the word is probably Old French coscet ‘cottager’. Compare pet Rhymes posset Definition of cosset in US English: cosset verbˈkäsətˈkɑsət [with object] Care for and protect in an overindulgent way. 宠爱；溺爱 all her life she'd been cosseted by her family 她一生都被家人宠爱着。 Example sentencesExamples By the end of the first glass of champagne we had been cosseted, pampered and ready for whatever Jacques and Laurent might suggest! The silence comes from an allegedly compassionate desire to protect or cosset the poor, rather than treating them like responsible adults. His target was the traditional social model, the set of protections and regulations that have cosseted European workers for so long. After Zac, there is Yvan, the baby, who is cosseted and overfed, with pettishly long hair. You are quite cosseted throughout but at the end I felt vulnerable. But she worries about him, and cossets him - and then of course, my father, wonderful man though he is, realises he's got someone at his beck and call and plays up to it. And it's not just pampered pooches and cosseted cats who are in with a chance of stealing the show. The young Howard Hughes was not helped by his over-protective mother who cosseted him to such an extent that he was not even allowed to go to school for fear he would not be properly looked after. Since Christiane's doctor has warned her son that she must never experience any more shocks, Alex cossets his mother in their apartment. It seems that in Japanese there is simply no way to say something that simple without cosseting it heavily in a bunch of formal etiquette-stuff. Instead of unquestioned fealty to one's superior officer, an ambitious soldier might now have to think of cosseting the president and the public, via the media. This is the most delicately flavoured rhubarb there is, cosseted and pampered to keep its subtlety. For a large part its because we've been cosseted and protected by America. Here are a few drinks ideas to help cosset your mum on Mothering Sunday. The full leather trim is standard, cosseting the occupants, and there are plenty of practical features to assist in making the journey that much more enjoyable. No other group in society has been so cosseted from the real world, so protected from the consequences of its own actions and so compensated for its own inadequacies. The flowers and bushes are in bloom; flox cossets the rocks on the neighbor's front lawn; at night you can hear the burble of a waterfall across the street. The successful five were moved into a plush secret location with the kind of kitchen folks like us can only dream about; they were cosseted and counselled, indulged and admired. Nothing cossets these hacks like the conviction that happy people aren't happy. Every woman wants to be adored, loved, cosseted and taken care of and protected. Synonyms pamper, indulge, overindulge, mollycoddle, coddle, baby, pet, mother, nanny, nursemaid, pander to, spoon-feed, feather-bed, overparent, spoil Origin Mid 16th century (as a noun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child): probably from Anglo-Norman French coscet ‘cottager’, from Old English cotsǣta ‘cottar’.
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