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Posset vs Egghot - What's the difference?

posset | egghot |

As nouns the difference between posset and egghot

is that posset is a beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine while egghot is a posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.

As a verb posset

is to curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.

posset

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have drugged their posset .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.
    • to posset the blood
  • To treat with possets; to pamper.
  • * 1908 , Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale
    • Nevertheless, as she laid him in bed and posseted him, how frail and fragile he looked!

    Synonyms

    * (pamper) coddle, cosset, pamper

    Derived terms

    * sneck posset * give a sneck posset

    References

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    Anagrams

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    egghot

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) A posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.