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Posset vs Poss - What's the difference?

posset | poss |

As verbs the difference between posset and poss

is that posset is (obsolete) to curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate while poss is (archaic) to mix with a vertical motion, especially when washing the hands.

As a noun posset

is a beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.

As an abbreviation poss is

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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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    poss

    English

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)

    • Verb

    (es)
  • (archaic) To mix with a vertical motion, especially when washing the hands.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To push; to dash; to throw.
  • * Piers Plowman
    • A cat possed them [the rats] about.

    Related terms

    * posser

    Anagrams

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