possetn.

Brit.

/ˈpɒsɪt/, U.S.

/ˈpɑsət/

Forms: late Middle English poshet, late Middle English poshoote, late Middle English poshote, late Middle English poshotte, late Middle English possate, late Middle English possot, late Middle English possyt, late Middle English posthot, late Middle English–1500s poset, late Middle English–1600s possett, late Middle English– posset, 1500s postl- (in compounds), 1600s possit, 1700s possettt (perhaps transmission error); English regional 1800s– 'posit (in sense 2), 1800s– possett, 1800s– possit, 1800s– possut; Scottish pre-1700 poset, pre-1700 posit, pre-1700 possat, pre-1700 possett, pre-1700 possitt, pre-1700 pouset, pre-1700 1700s– posset.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown.Connection with posca n. has been suggested, but seems unlikely on both semantic and formal grounds. Perhaps compare Middle French possette (1530 in Palsgrave), although this does not seem to be otherwise attested, and may be a borrowing from English. Irish posóid is < English.

1. A drink made from hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor, flavoured with sugar, herbs, spices, etc., and often drunk for medicinal purposes (now historical); a kind of syllabub made from similar ingredients. Frequently with distinguishing word.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > hot alcoholic drinks (with milk or eggs) > [noun] > posset

posseta1425

balductumc1450

sack-posset1601

pepper posset1669

treacle-posset1732

brandy-posset1769

powsowdie1825

egg-posset1832

beer-posset1842

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > types of

Galianesc1386

julepc1400

posseta1425

diet-drink1600

surfeit water1633

wound-drink1657

Garus1836

a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 666 Bedulta, possyt.

1466 Expenses J. Paston's Funeral in Paston Lett. (1904) IV. 229 For bred, ale, and possets to the same persons, vi d.

a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 124 Milke, crayme, and cruddes, and eke the Ioncate, þey close a mannes stomak, and so dothe þe possate.

?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 35 (MED) A playstre for to breke a boche or apostym or a felon: Make forst a possot to gedre þe matere; and whanne hit ys nesche take lym þat ys noȝt y-sleyȝt and ley þer-vpon a litel watere, [etc.].

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 257/1 Posset of ale and mylke, possette.

1546 T. Phaer Bk. Children (1553) T vj Knotgrasse..the iuice therof in a posset dronken..is excedyng good.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. ii. 6 The surfeted Groomes doe mock their charge With Snores. I haue drugg'd their Possets .

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. O8^v Thou shalt have Possets, Wassails fine, Not made of Ale, but spiced Wine.

1705 Ld. Godolphin Let. 28 Feb. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) I. 412 She drinks sometimes sack whey, sometimes sage possettt.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 57. ¶2 [He] can make a Caudle or a Sack Posset better than any Man in England.

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 328 His supper should be light; as small posset, or water-gruel sweetened with honey, and a little toasted bread in it.

1849 O. W. Holmes Poems 255 30/1 The little Captain stood and stirred the posset with his sword.

1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. xiii. 205 I do wish he would try a hot posset of a night, just before going to bed.

1931 A. Uttley Country Child xi. 138 ‘Help yourselves, help yourselves, “Christmas comes but once a year, and when it comes it brings good cheer”,’ said Tom, and he poured out the spiced hot ale for the men, and the women ate posset with nutmeg and sugar.

1951 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dialects: C908) Track 47 [Yorkshire] Christmas morn, anyone would make a posset for you.

1977 Punch 31 Aug. 331/1 Blossom, the strikingly handsome new scivvy, is mixing her a posset.

1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes xv. 430 Scotch salmon with hollandaise sauce; long fillet of beef with new potatoes and French beans; lemon posset and Savoy fingers.

2011 N. C. Crump in S. A. McLeod Dining with Washingtons 210/1 Posset was served in special cups, as coffee and tea were.

2. A quantity of milk regurgitated by a baby; baby vomit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > reflux or regurgitation > substance

regorgement1641

heartwater1742

posset1886

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > vomiting > vomit > types of vomit

black vomit1615

projectile vomit1884

coffee-ground vomit1886

posset1886

1886 H. Cunliffe Gloss. Rochdale-with-Rossendale Words & Phrases Posset, the liquid food vomited by infants.

1896 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 18 Apr. Sutha, wipe me this 'posit off o' mi arm.

1985 M. Stoppard Pregnancy & Birth Bk. xiv. 154/1 Muslin squares for catching possets and protecting your clothing during burping sessions.

2001 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Apr. 10 Walking about not knowing there is baby sick (or ‘posset’ as it is winsomely called in baby manuals) on either shoulder would be a good place to start.

Compounds

† posset ale n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1528 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 299 A possetale, hauing certein herbes clarified in it.

1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. v For a single Tertian fever, or each other daies ague; take a quart of posset ale, the curde being well drained from the same, and put thereinto a good handfull of Dandilion.

1830 Times 26 July 3/6 To promote perspiration they are ordered to drink posset ale, made of sweet milk, turned with vinegar.

† posset basin n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > posset-bowl

posset bowl1551

posset basin1664

posset-dish1819

1664 J. Wilson Cheats II. i. 16 Like my Mistresses Silver-sack-posset-bason; Screw a handle to't, and 'tis her Bed-pan; put a Cover to that, her Warming-pan; Take off both, it serves to wash her hands in the morning, and for a Sack-posset, at Supper.

1680 Hon. Cavalier 11 I know some, who prefer..the Possit-Bason before the Hallowed Font.

1850 R. Bell Ladder of Gold I. iv. 68 The remains of a cold fowl, a bottle and glasses, a posset basin, and one or two medicine phials, were on the table.

posset bowl n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > posset-bowl

posset bowl1551

posset basin1664

posset-dish1819

1551–60 in H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age (1887) 152 A possett Boule of Pewter.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiii. 207 He..escaped; leaving me to be answerable, not only for the reckoning, but also for a large silver tankard and posset-bowl, which he had carried off with him.

1935 Burlington Mag. July p. xvii/2 A beautiful posset bowl and cover.

posset cup n.

ΚΠ

1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe ii. sig. D3^v Posset Cuppes caru'd with Libberdes faces and Lyons heades with spoutes in their mouthes, to let out the posset Ale.

1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 556 The most (and most remarkable) were, like a Bason or Posset-Cup, the Bowl, semiglobular.

1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries vii. 181 At this manufactory was made the first Posset Cup, which would contain five pints.

1995 House Beautiful Nov. 78/1 They demanded special willowware pieces for their elaborate tables: asparagus servers, posset cups, demitasse cups, two-handled covered porridge dishes.

† posset-curd n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q4 Hee lou'd lycoras and drunke posset curd.

1662 Duchess of Newcastle Matrimonial Trouble i. iv. xxxii, in Playes Written 445 You are a strange wench, to make the Posset-curd so tough, that now my Lady hath eat it, it lies so hard, so hard in her stomach, as it cannot digest.

posset-dish n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > posset-bowl

posset bowl1551

posset basin1664

posset-dish1819

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 220 The lady's auld posset dish, that wants the cover and one o' the lugs.

1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark vi. 110 There was..spiced wine in a gold posset-dish and a silver lamp burning scented oil.

1994 Past & Present 145 155/2 Posset-dish, whole bowl, broken bowl.

posset drink n.

ΚΠ

1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. i Some burnt Sack for her good wenches: or possit drink.

1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 51 Drink..a quarter of a pint of Allum Posset-drink.

1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 2 Oct. 6 Cream and curds were widely used in the medieval kitchen and hot ‘posset’ drinks made with milk curdled by ale were very popular.

posset pot n.

ΚΠ

1617–22 in G. R. Batho Househ. Papers H. Percy (1962) 109 One possett pott with a cover, waighing 0084 02. di., and di. quarter.

1685 Inventory 16 May in Probate Inventories Lincoln 1661–1714 (1991) xxxvii. 89 A Possitpot a Pasty peele.

1819 ‘P. Bobbin’ Sequel 41 Yo mitn o' let'n th' possit pot bothom o' bin fund ere yo'dn kiket it oer.

1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain ii. 25 At Wrotham..were produced..quaint, slip-decorated posset-pots, tygs and dishes.

1992 Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide Jan. 36/3 The shapes used were at first copying Rhenish stoneware..but progressed to producing barrel-shaped mugs, wine bottles and straight-sided posset pots.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

possetv.

Brit.

/ˈpɒsɪt/, U.S.

/ˈpɑsət/

Forms: 1600s 1800s– posset, 1800s– possett.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: posset n.

Etymology: < posset n.

†1. intransitive. To curdle like a posset. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > give consistency to [verb (transitive)] > coagulate

thickc1000

runlOE

quaila1398

congealc1400

curd?a1425

thickenc1425

coagulec1550

clumper1562

curdle1585

clutter1601

quarl1607

coagulate1611

posseta1616

sam1615

concrete1635

earn1670

clotter1700

cotter1781

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) i. v. 68 And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset [1604 possesse] And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke, The thin and wholsome blood.

a. intransitive. Of a baby: to regurgitate milk, food, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > vomit

spewc897

vomea1382

brake1393

perbreak?a1400

castc1440

envomish1480

parbreak1495

vomita1500

to cast the crawa1529

to cast (up), heave, spue up, vomit one's gorgea1529

galpa1535

to cast out1561

puke1586

purge1596

void1605

to jerk, shoot, whip the cat1609

rid1647

to flay the fox1653

posset1781

to shoot the cat1785

to throw up1793

throw1804

cascade1805

reject1822

yark1867

sick1924

to toss (also shoot, blow, etc.) one's cookies1927

to lose a dinner (or a meal)1941

to spew one's ring1949

chunder1950

barf1960

upchuck1960

yuck1963

ralph1966

to go for the big spit1967

vom1991

1781 W. Moss Ess. Managem. & Nursing of Children 78 (note) Children are always observed to thrive best when they posset, or throw up freely.

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Posset, to throw up small quantities of food as a baby does.

1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 590/1 Bless its little heart, it's possetting again.

1985 M. Stoppard Pregnancy & Birth Bk. xvii. 210/1 Some babies posset, others don't.

2004 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Feb. 14 I had to send my husband out to buy more sheets for the Moses basket as my son kept posseting on them and they needed endless washing.

b. transitive. Of a baby: to regurgitate (milk, food, etc.).

ΚΠ

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton ix A shilling for th' bread and milk us were possetted all over babby's clothes.

1935 D. Paterson & J. F. Smith Mod. Methods Feeding in Infancy & Childhood (ed. 5) vii. 113 Nearly every infant is inclined to posset or spit up a few teaspoonfuls of its feed, usually immediately after the feed is finished.

2000 Mirror (Nexis) 29 June 32 Be alert every time they squirm, arch their back, yawn, turn away, frown, grimace or posset a little milk.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	posset
释义	possetn. Brit. /ˈpɒsɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɑsət/ Forms: late Middle English poshet, late Middle English poshoote, late Middle English poshote, late Middle English poshotte, late Middle English possate, late Middle English possot, late Middle English possyt, late Middle English posthot, late Middle English–1500s poset, late Middle English–1600s possett, late Middle English– posset, 1500s postl- (in compounds), 1600s possit, 1700s possettt (perhaps transmission error); English regional 1800s– 'posit (in sense 2), 1800s– possett, 1800s– possit, 1800s– possut; Scottish pre-1700 poset, pre-1700 posit, pre-1700 possat, pre-1700 possett, pre-1700 possitt, pre-1700 pouset, pre-1700 1700s– posset. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.Connection with posca n. has been suggested, but seems unlikely on both semantic and formal grounds. Perhaps compare Middle French possette (1530 in Palsgrave), although this does not seem to be otherwise attested, and may be a borrowing from English. Irish posóid is < English. 1. A drink made from hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor, flavoured with sugar, herbs, spices, etc., and often drunk for medicinal purposes (now historical); a kind of syllabub made from similar ingredients. Frequently with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > hot alcoholic drinks (with milk or eggs) > [noun] > posset posseta1425 balductumc1450 sack-posset1601 pepper posset1669 treacle-posset1732 brandy-posset1769 powsowdie1825 egg-posset1832 beer-posset1842 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > types of Galianesc1386 julepc1400 posseta1425 diet-drink1600 surfeit water1633 wound-drink1657 Garus1836 a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 666 Bedulta, possyt. 1466 Expenses J. Paston's Funeral in Paston Lett. (1904) IV. 229 For bred, ale, and possets to the same persons, vi d. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 124 Milke, crayme, and cruddes, and eke the Ioncate, þey close a mannes stomak, and so dothe þe possate. ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 35 (MED) A playstre for to breke a boche or apostym or a felon: Make forst a possot to gedre þe matere; and whanne hit ys nesche take lym þat ys noȝt y-sleyȝt and ley þer-vpon a litel watere, [etc.]. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 257/1 Posset of ale and mylke, possette. 1546 T. Phaer Bk. Children (1553) T vj Knotgrasse..the iuice therof in a posset dronken..is excedyng good. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. ii. 6 The surfeted Groomes doe mock their charge With Snores. I haue drugg'd their Possets . View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. O8^v Thou shalt have Possets, Wassails fine, Not made of Ale, but spiced Wine. 1705 Ld. Godolphin Let. 28 Feb. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) I. 412 She drinks sometimes sack whey, sometimes sage possettt. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 57. ¶2 [He] can make a Caudle or a Sack Posset better than any Man in England. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 328 His supper should be light; as small posset, or water-gruel sweetened with honey, and a little toasted bread in it. 1849 O. W. Holmes Poems 255 30/1 The little Captain stood and stirred the posset with his sword. 1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. xiii. 205 I do wish he would try a hot posset of a night, just before going to bed. 1931 A. Uttley Country Child xi. 138 ‘Help yourselves, help yourselves, “Christmas comes but once a year, and when it comes it brings good cheer”,’ said Tom, and he poured out the spiced hot ale for the men, and the women ate posset with nutmeg and sugar. 1951 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dialects: C908) Track 47 [Yorkshire] Christmas morn, anyone would make a posset for you. 1977 Punch 31 Aug. 331/1 Blossom, the strikingly handsome new scivvy, is mixing her a posset. 1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes xv. 430 Scotch salmon with hollandaise sauce; long fillet of beef with new potatoes and French beans; lemon posset and Savoy fingers. 2011 N. C. Crump in S. A. McLeod Dining with Washingtons 210/1 Posset was served in special cups, as coffee and tea were. 2. A quantity of milk regurgitated by a baby; baby vomit. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > reflux or regurgitation > substance regorgement1641 heartwater1742 posset1886 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > vomiting > vomit > types of vomit black vomit1615 projectile vomit1884 coffee-ground vomit1886 posset1886 1886 H. Cunliffe Gloss. Rochdale-with-Rossendale Words & Phrases Posset, the liquid food vomited by infants. 1896 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 18 Apr. Sutha, wipe me this 'posit off o' mi arm. 1985 M. Stoppard Pregnancy & Birth Bk. xiv. 154/1 Muslin squares for catching possets and protecting your clothing during burping sessions. 2001 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Apr. 10 Walking about not knowing there is baby sick (or ‘posset’ as it is winsomely called in baby manuals) on either shoulder would be a good place to start. Compounds † posset ale n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1528 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 299 A possetale, hauing certein herbes clarified in it. 1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. v For a single Tertian fever, or each other daies ague; take a quart of posset ale, the curde being well drained from the same, and put thereinto a good handfull of Dandilion. 1830 Times 26 July 3/6 To promote perspiration they are ordered to drink posset ale, made of sweet milk, turned with vinegar. † posset basin n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > posset-bowl posset bowl1551 posset basin1664 posset-dish1819 1664 J. Wilson Cheats II. i. 16 Like my Mistresses Silver-sack-posset-bason; Screw a handle to't, and 'tis her Bed-pan; put a Cover to that, her Warming-pan; Take off both, it serves to wash her hands in the morning, and for a Sack-posset, at Supper. 1680 Hon. Cavalier 11 I know some, who prefer..the Possit-Bason before the Hallowed Font. 1850 R. Bell Ladder of Gold I. iv. 68 The remains of a cold fowl, a bottle and glasses, a posset basin, and one or two medicine phials, were on the table. posset bowl n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > posset-bowl posset bowl1551 posset basin1664 posset-dish1819 1551–60 in H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age (1887) 152 A possett Boule of Pewter. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiii. 207 He..escaped; leaving me to be answerable, not only for the reckoning, but also for a large silver tankard and posset-bowl, which he had carried off with him. 1935 Burlington Mag. July p. xvii/2 A beautiful posset bowl and cover. posset cup n. ΚΠ 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe ii. sig. D3^v Posset Cuppes caru'd with Libberdes faces and Lyons heades with spoutes in their mouthes, to let out the posset Ale. 1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 556 The most (and most remarkable) were, like a Bason or Posset-Cup, the Bowl, semiglobular. 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries vii. 181 At this manufactory was made the first Posset Cup, which would contain five pints. 1995 House Beautiful Nov. 78/1 They demanded special willowware pieces for their elaborate tables: asparagus servers, posset cups, demitasse cups, two-handled covered porridge dishes. † posset-curd n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q4 Hee lou'd lycoras and drunke posset curd. 1662 Duchess of Newcastle Matrimonial Trouble i. iv. xxxii, in Playes Written 445 You are a strange wench, to make the Posset-curd so tough, that now my Lady hath eat it, it lies so hard, so hard in her stomach, as it cannot digest. posset-dish n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > posset-bowl posset bowl1551 posset basin1664 posset-dish1819 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 220 The lady's auld posset dish, that wants the cover and one o' the lugs. 1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark vi. 110 There was..spiced wine in a gold posset-dish and a silver lamp burning scented oil. 1994 Past & Present 145 155/2 Posset-dish, whole bowl, broken bowl. posset drink n. ΚΠ 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe v. i Some burnt Sack for her good wenches: or possit drink. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 51 Drink..a quarter of a pint of Allum Posset-drink. 1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 2 Oct. 6 Cream and curds were widely used in the medieval kitchen and hot ‘posset’ drinks made with milk curdled by ale were very popular. posset pot n. ΚΠ 1617–22 in G. R. Batho Househ. Papers H. Percy (1962) 109 One possett pott with a cover, waighing 0084 02. di., and di. quarter. 1685 Inventory 16 May in Probate Inventories Lincoln 1661–1714 (1991) xxxvii. 89 A Possitpot a Pasty peele. 1819 ‘P. Bobbin’ Sequel 41 Yo mitn o' let'n th' possit pot bothom o' bin fund ere yo'dn kiket it oer. 1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain ii. 25 At Wrotham..were produced..quaint, slip-decorated posset-pots, tygs and dishes. 1992 Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide Jan. 36/3 The shapes used were at first copying Rhenish stoneware..but progressed to producing barrel-shaped mugs, wine bottles and straight-sided posset pots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). possetv. Brit. /ˈpɒsɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɑsət/ Forms: 1600s 1800s– posset, 1800s– possett. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: posset n. Etymology: < posset n. †1. intransitive. To curdle like a posset. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > give consistency to [verb (transitive)] > coagulate thickc1000 runlOE quaila1398 congealc1400 curd?a1425 thickenc1425 coagulec1550 clumper1562 curdle1585 clutter1601 quarl1607 coagulate1611 posseta1616 sam1615 concrete1635 earn1670 clotter1700 cotter1781 a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) i. v. 68 And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset [1604 possesse] And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke, The thin and wholsome blood. 2. a. intransitive. Of a baby: to regurgitate milk, food, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > vomit spewc897 vomea1382 brake1393 perbreak?a1400 castc1440 envomish1480 parbreak1495 vomita1500 to cast the crawa1529 to cast (up), heave, spue up, vomit one's gorgea1529 galpa1535 to cast out1561 puke1586 purge1596 void1605 to jerk, shoot, whip the cat1609 rid1647 to flay the fox1653 posset1781 to shoot the cat1785 to throw up1793 throw1804 cascade1805 reject1822 yark1867 sick1924 to toss (also shoot, blow, etc.) one's cookies1927 to lose a dinner (or a meal)1941 to spew one's ring1949 chunder1950 barf1960 upchuck1960 yuck1963 ralph1966 to go for the big spit1967 vom1991 1781 W. Moss Ess. Managem. & Nursing of Children 78 (note) Children are always observed to thrive best when they posset, or throw up freely. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Posset, to throw up small quantities of food as a baby does. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 590/1 Bless its little heart, it's possetting again. 1985 M. Stoppard Pregnancy & Birth Bk. xvii. 210/1 Some babies posset, others don't. 2004 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Feb. 14 I had to send my husband out to buy more sheets for the Moses basket as my son kept posseting on them and they needed endless washing. b. transitive. Of a baby: to regurgitate (milk, food, etc.). ΚΠ 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton ix A shilling for th' bread and milk us were possetted all over babby's clothes. 1935 D. Paterson & J. F. Smith Mod. Methods Feeding in Infancy & Childhood (ed. 5) vii. 113 Nearly every infant is inclined to posset or spit up a few teaspoonfuls of its feed, usually immediately after the feed is finished. 2000 Mirror (Nexis) 29 June 32 Be alert every time they squirm, arch their back, yawn, turn away, frown, grimace or posset a little milk. 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