[with obj.]care for and protect in an overindulgent way 宠爱;溺爱 all her life she'd been cosseted by her family. 她一生都被家人宠爱着。
语源
mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child): probably from Anglo-Norman French coscet 'cottager', from Old English cotsǣta 'cottar'