Brewer's: Cosset

A house pet. Applied to a pet lamb brought up in the house; any pet. (Anglo-Saxon, cot-seat, cottage-dweller; German, kossat.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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