Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spiced drink of hot sweetened milk curdled with wine or ale.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drink composed of hot milk curdled by some infusion, as wine or other liquor, formerly much in favor both as a luxury and as medicine.
- To curdle; coagulate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly.
- transitive verb obsolete To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.
- transitive verb rare To treat with possets; to pamper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc. - verb obsolete To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood
- verb To treat with possets; to pamper
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Inexplicably, it may be the first appearance of the word posset on this website.
Hooting Yard 2009
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An English creation, it descended from a hot British drink called posset, which consists of eggs, milk, and ale or wine.
HOMEMADE VEGAN "PUMPKIN NOG" (AND IT'S A "NOG", NOT A MILKSHAKE!) Bryanna Clark Grogan 2007
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An English creation, it descended from a hot British drink called posset, which consists of eggs, milk, and ale or wine.
Archive 2007-12-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2007
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The caudle cup, sometimes called a posset cup, is met with both without and with cover, and in some instances it is accompanied by a stand or tray.
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He remained for a few minutes upstairs, chatting gaily, vowing that the posset was the best he had ever drank, and declaring to Nellie that he regarded as a favourable omen for his expedition that he should have seen so fair a face the last thing before starting.
When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire 1867
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Eggnog can trace its roots to a hot cocktail known as posset
CNN.com 2010
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Eggnog can trace its roots to a hot cocktail known as posset
CNN.com 2010
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In medieval English upper crust enjoyed a libation known as posset, a
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missanthropist commented on the word posset
A drink composes of hot milk, curdled by some strong infusion.
It was found much in favour with our ancestors, both as a luxury and medicine.
February 4, 2009
madmouth commented on the word posset
eyagh
but then, if someone had described makkolli to me before I'd drunk it...I wouldna drunk it.
April 26, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word posset
Also see sack-posset.
January 15, 2011
bilby commented on the word posset
"Apparently this gave her some temporary relief, but then her symptoms returned and she consulted Dr Fairfax's apothecary. He wrote that he gave her some 'Lady Hollands powder to take in a posset drink', which made her vomit."
- Strange tales from the Royal Society, BBC website, 25 Oct 2011.
October 26, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word posset
"Most people kept their heads down, perhaps dulling the sharp edge of their anxieties with a particularly seventeenth-century supper drink, the posset*.... The posset was a spiced, sweet, warm confection made of ale, cider or wine--especially sack--thickened with eggs, cream or warmed milk which curdled as they were poured over the liquor."
"* In the United States, especially in the nineteenth century, the posset became known as eggnog."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 136
January 11, 2017