pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
(verb) treat with excessive indulgence; “grandparents often pamper the children”; “Let’s not mollycoddle our students!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cosset (third-person singular simple present cossets, present participle cossetting or cosseting, simple past and past participle cossetted or cosseted)
(transitive) To treat like a pet; to overly indulge. [from 1650s]
(transitive) To fondle; to touch or stroke lovingly.
• (to treat like a pet): coddle, posset; see also pamper
• (to fondle): grope, touch up; see also fondle
cosset (plural cossets)
A pet, especially a pet lamb. [from 1570s]
Someone indulged or cosseted. [from 1590s]
• Costes, cosets, scotes
Source: Wiktionary
Cos"set (ks"st), n. Etym: [Cf. AS. cotsetla cottager, G. kossat, kothsasse, fr. kot, koth E. (cot) hut, and cf. also E. cade, a., cot a cade lamb.]
Definition: A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
Cos"set, v. t.
Definition: To treat as a pet; to fondle. She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. O. W. Holmes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
