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Posseted vs Cosseted - What's the difference?

posseted | cosseted |

As verbs the difference between posseted and cosseted

is that posseted is (posset) while cosseted is (cosset).

As an adjective cosseted is

pampered.

posseted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (posset)

    • 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

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    cosseted

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cossetted

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • pampered
    • a cosseted childhood
    a cosseted elite
    cosseted and pampered
    they are a pampered, cossetted bunch
    ''They have been pampered, cosseted , doted upon, helmeted.
    Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure.
  • * 2014 , Nicola Woolcock, Private pupils are cosseted, says Gove wife.] , [[w:The Times, The Times] from 6 March 2014
    • Independent schools churn out teenagers who are cosseted , snobbish and unable to open a can of beans, Michael Gove’s wife has suggested.

    Usage notes

    The adjective cosseted is frequently written with two T’s: cossetted.

    Synonyms

    * spoiled * coddled

    Related terms

    * cosseting

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cosset)

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