To fondle; indulge; treat with excessive tenderness; pamper; spoil.
noun A cock-fighter; one who makes a practice of fighting game-cocks, or of training them for fighting.
noun A dog of the spaniel kind, trained to start woodcock and snipe in woods and marshes.
noun A fighter; a bully.
noun A reaper.
noun A quiver.
noun plural High shoes or half-boots, laced or buttoned.
noun plural Thick stockings without feet, used as an outside protection for the lower part of the leg.
noun plural Same as cockermegs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun obsolete A rustic high shoe or half-boots.
transitive verb To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
noun obsolete One given to cockfighting.
noun (Zoöl.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
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noun dated someone who breed gamecocks, or arranges cockfights
noun a cocker spaniel
noun A rustic high shoe, half-boots
verb To indulge or pamper (someone).
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verb treat with excessive indulgence
noun a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England
Etymologies
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From cock (the bird).
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Origin uncertain.
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From Middle English coker "a quiver, boot" from Old English cocer "quiver, case" from Proto-Germanic *kukur- (“container, case”). More at quiver.
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Examples
The most serious objection to the use of the cocker is the difficulty of teaching him to distinguish his game, and confine himself within bounds; for he will too often flush everything that comes within his reach.
Making use of its big database, PetSmart sent out 117,000 emails to cocker spaniel and Great Pyrenees owners who had entered contact information after bringing in their pets for grooming.
bilby commented on the word cocker
Mmmm, a reaper.
January 11, 2016
bilby commented on the word cocker
See also coker.
January 11, 2016