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Definition of 'posset'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.
* Shakespeare
- I have drugged their posset .
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.
- to posset the blood
To treat with possets; to pamper.
* 1908 , Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale
- Nevertheless, as she laid him in bed and posseted him, how frail and fragile he looked!
Synonyms
* (pamper) coddle, cosset, pamper
Derived terms
* sneck posset
* give a sneck posset
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