posset
English
Etymology
From Welsh [Term?].
Pronunciation
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Noun
posset (plural possets)
- A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.
- Shakespeare
- I have drugged their posset.
- Shakespeare
- A baby's vomit, comprising curdled milk.
- 2008, Miriam Stoppard, Complete Baby and Childcare: Everything You Need to Know for the First Five Years, Dorling Kindersley Ltd →ISBN
- Some people will tell you that this position may allow inhalation of posset, but there is no evidence to support this.
- 2012, Dave Hill, Man Alive, Hachette UK →ISBN
- Derek saw that a smear of posset had appeared on the left shoulder of his jacket [...] He smiled softly at Charlotte and said softly, 'I've been puked on.'
- 2014, Nick Harper, Help! I'm a Dad: All a new dad needs to know about the difficult first few months, Michael O'Mara Books →ISBN
- While a little posseting is nothing to be worried about, a lot of posset is more likely to be 'reflux'.
- 2008, Miriam Stoppard, Complete Baby and Childcare: Everything You Need to Know for the First Five Years, Dorling Kindersley Ltd →ISBN
Verb
posset (third-person singular simple present possets, present participle posseting, simple past and past participle posseted)
- (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!
- 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale
- (of a baby) To vomit up curdled milk.
- 1990, Miriam Stoppard, The New Baby Care Book →ISBN
- Some babies never posset at all. Others do so with surprising ease, and this can be quite a cause of concern to parents.
- 2003, Pearson Education, Limited, Baby's First Year, Pearson South Africa →ISBN, page 23
- All babies posset.
- 2012, Andy Raffles, Felicity Fine, Harriet Sharkey, Yehudi Gordon, Mother and Baby Health: The A-Z of pregnancy, birth and beyond, Random House →ISBN, page 421
- It's also common for babies to 'posset' - bring up small amounts of milk after a feed - and to vomit occasionally.
- 1990, Miriam Stoppard, The New Baby Care Book →ISBN
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “posset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpos.set/, [ˈpɔs̠ːɛt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.set/, [ˈpɔsːet̪]
Verb
(deprecated template usage) posset
- third-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of possum "he would be able (to)"