cocker.
One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
Meaning & usage
One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
One who hunts woodcocks.
A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
Where this word comes from
From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
A quiver.
Where this word comes from
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.
Friend, mate.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
Where this word comes from
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”).
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