cossets
Meaning of cossets
verb, 3rd person present
- care for and protect in an overindulgent way.
all her life she'd been cosseted by her family
mid 16th century (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’.
Information about cossets
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of cossets is: cosset.
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CatalanHyphenation of cossets
cos-sets
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- cossets is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
cossets synonyms
Meaning indulge with every attention, comfort, and kindness; spoil:
Meaning allow (someone) to enjoy something desired:
Meaning gratify the wishes of (someone) to an excessive extent:
Meaning treat (someone) in an indulgent or overprotective way:
Meaning treat (someone) as a baby; pamper or be overprotective towards:
Meaning treat (someone) with affection or favouritism; pamper:
Meaning look after (someone) kindly and protectively, sometimes excessively so:
Meaning be overprotective towards:
Meaning look after or be overprotective towards:
Meaning harm the character of (someone, especially a child) by being too lenient or indulgent:
Meaning a small spaniel of a breed with a silky coat:
Words that rhyme with cossets
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