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Cockey
Definitions
- 1 Alternative spelling of cocky. alt-of, alternative
"When Yvette came out of the bathroom, I said baby turn on the cd player. For what the only singing you gonna hear is your own when I get up in you. She's getting cockey I thought."
- 1 A surname.
- 1 Alternative spelling of cocky (term of endearment) alt-of, alternative
""Go on board that little cockleshell of yourn?"—pointing to the splendid yacht—"not if I knows it, my cockeys! This old oss is spry to when he is well off—so make tracks and be off, before you gits this old coon's dander up."
- 2 Alternative spelling of cocky (“cockatoo; cockatoo farmer”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 Alternative spelling of kocay. alt-of, alternative
- 1 Alternative spelling of cocky. alt-of, alternative
"But if we are bigger built than you blokes, I suppose it's 'coz we—most of us—live away from big cities, and everybody goes in for sport an' all that; plenty of ridin' an' walkin' an' swimmin' and football an' hard work. Most of us are off the land, cockeying, and the blokes who come from the cities, Sydney and places like that, they all go in for surfing an' all kinds of sport."
Etymology
From cock + -ey (adjectival suffix).
From cock + -ey (diminutive suffix).
From cock(atoo) + -ey (diminutive suffix).
From cock(atoo) + -ey (diminutive suffix).
Diminutive form of Cocke.
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