Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To treat like a pet; to overly indulge.

    The car cossets its occupants in comfort.

    verhätscheln, verwöhnen

  2. (transitive)To fondle; to touch or stroke lovingly.

    The foam cossets your skin.

  3. (figuratively, transitive)To benefit; to make life easy for.

More definitions
  • treat with excessive indulgence

Examples

1 sentences

  1. He's so cosseted he can't do anything by himself.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
to treat like a pet:

Origin

Perhaps from Middle English cotsete, from Old English cotsǣta (“cottager”), from cot (“cot

Perhaps from Middle English cotsete, from Old English cotsǣta (“cottager”), from cot (“cottage”) (Modern English cot (“cottage”) (archaic)) + -sǣta (“-sitter”); compare coscet. Compare German Hauslamm (literally “house lamb”), Italian casiccio.

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Forms

cossets, cosseting, cosseted, cosseted
Base formcosset · to cosset
3rd person singularcossets
Present participlecosseting
Past simplecosseted / cossetted
Past participlecosseted / cossetted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycosset
he, she, itcossets

Past simpleLesson

all personscosseted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cosseted
he, she, ithas cosseted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cosset

Synonyms

11 synonyms
petA1posset
to treat like a pet:coddle
to fondle:caress
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Derivedcossetedcossetercosseting

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cosmopolitancosmoscosplaycostA2costacosting
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