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1650s, "to fondle, caress, indulge," from a noun (1570s) meaning "lamb brought up as a pet" (applied to persons from 1590s), perhaps from O.E. cot-sæta "one who dwells in a cot." Related: Coseted; coseting. Cf. Ger. Hauslamm, It. casiccio.