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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



... round to face the nursery once more, lifted one hand in a manner almost apostolic, and uttered the final warning "Never cosset!" Then he evaporated, not without a sort of mossy dignity, and might be heard tremblingly descending to ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens

... seemed very flat to one-and-twenty, and why should one girl have health and beauty, and brothers and sisters, and an adoring young husband into the bargain, and another be a solitary unit, with no one to cosset her and help her to bear ...
— More about Pixie • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... — N. favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel, spoiled child, enfant gat[Fr]; led captain; crony; fondling; apple of one's eye, man after one's own ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



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