Fosset vs Posset - What's the difference?
fosset | posset |
: "You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.''" , ii 1
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A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.
To treat with possets; to pamper.
* 1908 , Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale
As nouns the difference between fosset and posset
is that fosset is obsolete form of lang=en while posset is a beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.As a verb posset is
to curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.fosset
English
Noun
(en noun)posset
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have drugged their posset .
Verb
(en verb)- to posset the blood
- Nevertheless, as she laid him in bed and posseted him, how frail and fragile he looked!