different between posset vs caudle

English

Etymology

From Welsh posel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?s?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?s?t/

Noun

posset (plural possets)

1. A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.
2. 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'.

Translations

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.

   to posset the blood

2. 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!

3. (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.

Synonyms

• (pamper): coddle, cosset, pamper; see also Thesaurus:pamper

Derived terms

• sneck posset
• give a sneck posset

References

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

Anagrams

• T poses, T-poses, e-stops, estops, pestos, posest, posets, ptoses, stoeps, stopes

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pos.set/, [?p?s???t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pos.set/, [?p?s??t?]

Verb

posset

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

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French caudel, from Medieval Latin caldellum, diminutive of Latin caldum, caldus (“warm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??d?l/
• Rhymes: -??d?l
• Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudal

Noun

caudle (plural caudles)

1. A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 4:

     A venerable lady, known as Great-Aunt Grantley, who had money to bequeath to the Heir, and whom Adrian called The Eighteenth Century, occupied with Hippias the back ground of the house, and shared her caudles with him.

Synonyms

• posset

Verb

caudle (third-person singular simple present caudles, present participle caudling, simple past and past participle caudled)

1. (transitive) To make into caudle.
2. (transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.

Anagrams

• Claude, DeLuca, Deluca, cedula