Definitions for cosset

cosset cos·set

Spelling: [kos-it]
IPA: /ˈkɒs ɪt/

Cosset is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in cosset (ceosst).

Definitions for cosset

noun

  1. a lamb brought up without its dam; pet lamb.
  2. any pet.

verb (used with object)

  1. to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.

Origin of cosset

1570-80; akin to Old English cossetung kissing, verbal noun based on *cossettan to kiss, derivative of coss kiss

Examples for cosset

That colt went off as ferce as a wild-cat, and come back as quiet as a cosset lamb.

Late in the day, on Tuesday the twenty-sixth, cosset and his band made their appearance.

But Nature is no sentimentalist—does not cosset or pamper us.

"Here, open your mouth, cosset," he said to the lamb that he still held.

So you may, and I will feed you as if you were my cosset lamb.

I will cosset her up a little when I get to the country, and make a fuss over her.

Her task should be this,—to feed and cosset him if possible into good humour before her guest should arrive.

For once, there were no sentimental women waiting to cosset the bandit.

Let the new bourgeois tyrants cuddle and cosset the serpent that shall bite them, as did the salon ladies of the old regime.

Well would the King, to save his soul, placate and cosset his wife.

Word Value for cosset
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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