posset

Examples

• All

• After a long day, I enjoyed a warm posset by the fireplace, savoring its sweet and spiced flavors.

• I ordered his servant to prepare a hot posset.

  Fiction book (1991)

• I took the posset in a white porcelain cup.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Usually it was as simple as having whichever of us caught the spy's eye offer him a sleeping posset before we went to bed.

  Fiction book (2000)

• "His eyes were for you," Febria told me as we brewed the posset.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Winsom ministered to him, bringing him an egg beaten in brandy and possets of sweet woodruff.

  Fiction book (1993)

• And with a sudden vigor doth posset and curd, like eager droppings into milk, the thin and wholesome blood.

  Hamlet (2000)

• For dessert, Grandma always served a comforting posset made with milk, sugar, and a touch of ale.

• In the old taverns, patrons would often order a posset as a remedy for their ailments during the cold winters.

Idioms

G

to give a sneck posset

• Archaic

9.9

Not care at all about something

Surface Forms

Etymology