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cosset

/kos-it/US // ˈkɒs ɪt //UK // (ˈkɒsɪt) //

苔藓,苔丝,苔痕,苔苔

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a lamb brought up without its dam; pet lamb.
    • : any pet.

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Examples

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

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

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

  • And you will cosset him in them—to save his hoggish dignity487 and buttress up his heavy pride.

  • Aunt Hetty's blanket had been made from the wool of an especial cosset lamb that had lost its mother and been brought up by hand.