[f. COSHER v.1 + -ING2.] That ‘coshers’ or lives upon the industry of others.
1727. C. Threlkeld, Stirpes Hibern., C vij. It [Dodder] quits the Root, and like a coshering Parasite lives upon anothers Trencher.
1839. Blackw. Mag., XLV. 180. A herd of squandering, coshering, wandering blackguards.
1882. Goldw. Smith, in 19th Cent., July, 6. Some hereditary despot, the representative of their old coshering chiefs.
