'Cosset' definitions:
Definition of 'cosset'
From: WordNet
verb
Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
Definition of 'Cosset'
From: GCIDE
- Cosset \Cos"set\ (k?s"s?t), n. [Cf. AS. cotsetla cottager, G. kossat, kothsasse, fr. kot, koth E. (cot) hut, and cf. also E. cade, a., cot a cade lamb.] A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cosset'
From: GCIDE
- Cosset \Cos"set\, v. t. To treat as a pet; to fondle. [1913 Webster]
- She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. --O. W. Holmes.
Synonyms of 'cosset'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- care for,
- caress,
- cater to,
- cherish,
- cocker,
- coddle,
- cradle,
- cultivate,
- dandle,
- dry-nurse,
- favor,
- feed,
- fondle,
- foster,
- give way to,
- gratify,
- humor,
- indulge,
- lavish care on,
- mollycoddle,
- mother,
- nourish,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- oblige,
- pamper,
- pat,
- pet,
- please,
- satisfy,
- spoil,
- spoon-feed,
- suckle,
- sustain,
- wet-nurse,
- yield to