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Cocker   /kˈɑkər/   Listen
noun
Cocker  n.  
1.
One given to cockfighting. (Obs.)
2.
(Zool.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.


Cocker  n.  A rustic high shoe or half-boots. (Obs.)


verb
Cocker  v. t.  (past & past part. cockered; pres. part. cockering)  To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper. "Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid." "Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up."





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"Cocker" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other names till you come to the Maid of Lorn, is a rough, gnarled, incomparable little bit of a terrier, three parts Dandie-Dinmont, and one part—chiefly in tail and hair—cocker: her father being Lord Rutherfurd's famous "Dandie," and her mother the daughter of a Skye, and a light-hearted Cocker. The Duchess is about the size and weight of a rabbit; but has a soul as big, as fierce, and as faithful ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... disfurnished of its figures and figments. People will cease to harp upon the one lucky number suggested in a dream, and which forms the exception, while they are scrupulously silent upon the ten thousand falsified dreams which constitute the rule. Morpheus will stifle Cocker with a handful of poppies, and our pillows will be no longer haunted by the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... for the man, tempered by a sense that Scott dealt rather too much in those same shams to pass muster with a stern moral censor. Nobody can touch Scott's character more finely. There is a charming little anecdote which every reader must remember: how there was a 'little Blenheim cocker' of singular sensibility and sagacity; how the said cocker would at times fall into musings like those of a Wertherean poet, and lived in perpetual fear of strangers, regarding them all as potentially dog-stealers; how the dog was, nevertheless, endowed ...
— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen
... favorite cocker spaniel, and any faint impression my fair neighbor may have made on my unguarded heart was immediately dispelled. Thus subtly and vigilantly my house-keeper kept the outer gates of the citadel, and shooed away a possible mistress as effectually as she dispersed ...
— The Romance of an Old Fool • Roswell Field
... anything he says, It's just his presence and his smile, The blarney of his silences That cocker ...
— More Songs From Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey


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