cocker

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: Cocker

English

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

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

Noun

[edit]

cocker (plural cockers)

  1. One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
    Synonym: cockfighter
  2. (dated) One who hunts woodcocks.
  3. (colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
  4. A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
    • 2007, Field and Stream - Volume 112, page 62:
      You have your choice of two stock-mounted cocking aids: the Acudraw 50, an integral rope cocker, or the Acudraw crank-operated device.
    • 2011, Ritchie R. Moorhead, The Kid Looks Back-Short Stories & Tall Tales, page 48:
      The down side is that they are hard to draw without special lever cockers.
    • 2013, Todd A. Kuhn, Shooter's Bible Guide to Bowhunting:
      The standard default cocking mechanism is the rope cocker.
Derived terms
[edit]

Etymology 2

[edit]

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,[1] possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (leather vessel for liquids). More at quiver.

Noun

[edit]

cocker (plural cockers)

  1. A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
  2. (obsolete) A quiver.

Etymology 3

[edit]

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).

Noun

[edit]

cocker (plural cockers)

  1. (UK, informal) Friend, mate.
    • 1993, Arnold Wesker, Bluey:
      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...
    • 2004, Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction, →ISBN, page 361:
      He said, 'Not my cup of Darjeeling, cocker. I've been more intellectually challenged at a kiddies' swimming gala.'
Synonyms
[edit]
Derived terms
[edit]

Verb

[edit]

cocker (third-person singular simple present cockers, present participle cockering, simple past and past participle cockered)

  1. To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
Synonyms
[edit]
Derived terms
[edit]

References

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]

French

[edit]
French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

[edit]

From English.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /kɔ.kœʁ/, /kɔ.kɛʁ/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

[edit]

cocker m (plural cockers)

  1. cocker spaniel

Further reading

[edit]

Italian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English cocker spaniel.

Noun

[edit]

cocker m (invariable)

  1. cocker spaniel

Romanian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from French cocker.

Noun

[edit]

cocker m (plural cockeri)

  1. cocker spaniel

Declension

[edit]