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Antonyms for cosset

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kos-it
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒs ɪt

Definition of cosset

Origin :
  • 1650s, "to fondle, caress, indulge," from a noun (1570s) meaning "lamb brought up as a pet" (applied to persons from 1590s), perhaps from Old English cot-sæta "one who dwells in a cot." Related: Coseted; coseting. Cf. German Hauslamm, Italian casiccio.
  • verb care for lovingly
Example sentences :
  • Well would the King, to save his soul, placate and cosset his wife.
  • Extract from : « The Fifth Queen Crowned » by Ford Madox Ford
  • "Here, open your mouth, Cosset," he said to the lamb that he still held.
  • Extract from : « Beautiful Joe » by Marshall Saunders
  • I will cosset her up a little when I get to the country, and make a fuss over her.
  • Extract from : « Girls of the True Blue » by L. T. Meade
  • So you may, and I will feed you as if you were my cosset lamb.
  • Extract from : « The History of Margaret Catchpole » by Richard Cobbold
  • For once, there were no sentimental women waiting to cosset the bandit.
  • Extract from : « A Republic Without a President and Other Stories » by Herbert Ward
  • But Nature is no sentimentalist—does not cosset or pamper us.
  • Extract from : « The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature » by Various
  • Let the new bourgeois tyrants cuddle and cosset the serpent that shall bite them, as did the salon ladies of the old regime.
  • Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys
  • Late in the day, on Tuesday the twenty-sixth, Cosset and his band made their appearance.
  • Extract from : « History of the Rise of the Huguenots » by Henry Baird
  • Her task should be this,—to feed and cosset him if possible into good humour before her guest should arrive.
  • Extract from : « Orley Farm » by Anthony Trollope
  • That colt went off as ferce as a wild-cat, and come back as quiet as a cosset lamb.
  • Extract from : « A Mortal Antipathy » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Synonyms for cosset

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