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posset

/pos-it/US // ˈpɒs ɪt //UK // (ˈpɒsɪt) //

冒牌货,装修,冒号,冒充

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or the like, often sweetened and spiced.

Examples

  • If she was running short on time, she would make posset because she always had cream hanging around.

  • I went to bed with a posset, being very melancholy in consideration of the loss of my hearing.

  • “Never saw I such a brat among all I have brought into the world,” old Posset quavered.

  • Her head ached, she said, but she declined the hot posset, and only asked to be left quiet.

  • Et generaliter ad omnia facienda que ipse constituens posset facere si adesset.

  • Says she, 'Did you drink any sleepy posset either of these evenings before you went to bed?' '