cosset
verb /ˈkɒsɪt/
/ˈkɑːsɪt/
(often disapproving)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cosset | /ˈkɒsɪt/ /ˈkɑːsɪt/ |
| he / she / it cossets | /ˈkɒsɪts/ /ˈkɑːsɪts/ |
| past simple cosseted | /ˈkɒsɪtɪd/ /ˈkɑːsɪtɪd/ |
| past participle cosseted | /ˈkɒsɪtɪd/ /ˈkɑːsɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form cosseting | /ˈkɒsɪtɪŋ/ /ˈkɑːsɪtɪŋ/ |
- cosset somebody to treat somebody with a lot of care and give them a lot of attention, sometimes too much synonym pamper
- As a child, she had been spoiled and cosseted.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (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’ (a farm labourer occupying a cottage in return for labour).