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Cocker
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
- 3 A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.
- 1 One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
- 2 A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
- 3 Friend, mate. UK, informal
"I been to see 'im. Not pretty. Ward sister tell me 'e'll be alright but not for a while yet. Concussion. Bloody 'ell! Lucky 'e wasn't killed, lump of lead like that. Lucky for you too, cocker..."
- 4 a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England wordnet
- 5 One who hunts woodcocks. dated
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- 6 A quiver. obsolete
- 7 A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks. colloquial
- 8 A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
"You have your choice of two stock-mounted cocking aids: the Acudraw 50, an integral rope cocker, or the Acudraw crank-operated device."
- 1 To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
"[…] shall a beardless boy, A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?"
- 2 treat with excessive indulgence wordnet
Etymology
From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
From Middle English coker (“a quiver, boot”) from Old English cocer (“quiver, case”) from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (“container, case”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”). More at quiver.
Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English cokeren (“to pamper, coddle”); compare Welsh cocru (“to indulge, fondle”), French coqueliner (“to dandle, to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls”), and English cockle and cock (“rooster; to spoil”).
Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English cokeren (“to pamper, coddle”); compare Welsh cocru (“to indulge, fondle”), French coqueliner (“to dandle, to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls”), and English cockle and cock (“rooster; to spoil”).
* As an English surname, from the verb cock (“to fight, wrangle”), itself from the bird. The river in Lancashire is also from the bird. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cock (sense 3) (“heap of hay”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Kocher. * The river in Cumbria is of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *kukrā (“the crooked one”).
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