英语词汇“cosset”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cosset

/ˈkɒsɪt

verb (cossets, cosseting, cosseted) [with object]

Care for and protect in an overindulgent way: all her life she’d been cosseted by her family...

For a large part its because we've been cosseted and protected by America.
The silence comes from an allegedly compassionate desire to protect or cosset the poor, rather than treating them like responsible adults.
And it's not just pampered pooches and cosseted cats who are in with a chance of stealing the show.

Synonyms

pamper, indulge, overindulge, mollycoddle, coddle, baby, pet, mother, nanny, nursemaid, pander to, spoon-feed, feather-bed, overparent, spoil;

wrap in cotton wool, wait on someone hand and foot, cater to someone's every whim, kill with kindness

archaic cocker

Origin

Mid 16th century (as a noun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child): probably from Anglo-Norman French coscet 'cottager', from Old English cotsǣta 'cottar'.

In the 16th century a lamb brought up by hand as a pet was known as a cosset. The term was later used to refer to a spoiled child, and this is where the modern sense, ‘to pamper someone’, came from. The origin of the word is probably Old French coscet ‘cottager’. Compare pet

单词	cosset
释义	cosset /ˈkɒsɪt / verb (cossets, cosseting, cosseted) [with object] Care for and protect in an overindulgent way: all her life she’d been cosseted by her family... For a large part its because we've been cosseted and protected by America. The silence comes from an allegedly compassionate desire to protect or cosset the poor, rather than treating them like responsible adults. And it's not just pampered pooches and cosseted cats who are in with a chance of stealing the show. Synonyms pamper, indulge, overindulge, mollycoddle, coddle, baby, pet, mother, nanny, nursemaid, pander to, spoon-feed, feather-bed, overparent, spoil; wrap in cotton wool, wait on someone hand and foot, cater to someone's every whim, kill with kindness archaic cocker Origin Mid 16th century (as a noun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child): probably from Anglo-Norman French coscet 'cottager', from Old English cotsǣta 'cottar'. In the 16th century a lamb brought up by hand as a pet was known as a cosset. The term was later used to refer to a spoiled child, and this is where the modern sense, ‘to pamper someone’, came from. The origin of the word is probably Old French coscet ‘cottager’. Compare pet Rhymes posset
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