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cosset

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cos⋅set

  [kos-it]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.
–noun
2. a lamb brought up without its dam; pet lamb.
3. any pet.
Origin:
1570–80; akin to OE cossetung kissing, verbal n. based on *cossettan to kiss, deriv. of coss kiss
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cos·set   (kŏs'ĭt)   
tr.v.   cos·set·ed, cos·set·ing, cos·sets
To pamper.
n.  A pet, especially a pet lamb.

[Possibly from Anglo-Norman coscet, pet lamb, from Middle English cotsete, cottage-dweller, from Old English cotsǣta : cot, cottage + sǣta, -sǣte, inhabitant; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]
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cosset 
1659, "to fondle, caress, indulge," from a noun (1579) meaning "lamb brought up as a pet" (applied to persons from 1596), perhaps from O.E. cot-sæta "one who dwells in a cot."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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