posset

English

Etymology

Welsh

Noun

posset (plural possets)

1. A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.
   • Shakespeare

     I have drugged their posset.

Verb

posset (third-person singular simple present possets, present participle posseting, simple past and past participle posseted)

1. (obsolete) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood
2. To treat with possets; to pamper

Synonyms

• (treat kindly): coddle, cosset, pamper

Derived terms

• sneck posset
• give a sneck posset

References

• posset in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• estops
• posets
• ptoses
• stoeps
• stopes

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Latin

Verb

posset

1. third-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of possum  "he would be able (to)"