Cocker

//ˈkɒkə// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
  3. 3
    A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
  2. 2
    A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
  3. 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. 4
    a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England wordnet
  5. 5
    One who hunts woodcocks. dated
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  1. 6
    A quiver. obsolete
  2. 7
    A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks. colloquial
  3. 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."

Verb
  1. 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. 2
    treat with excessive indulgence wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

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”).

Etymology 4

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”).

Etymology 5

* 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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