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COCKER
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
(verb) treat with excessive indulgence; “grandparents often pamper the children”; “Let’s not mollycoddle our students!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Cocker
A surname.
A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.
Anagrams
• recock
Etymology 1
Noun
cocker (plural cockers)
One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
Synonym: cockfighter
(dated) One who hunts woodcocks.
(colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
Etymology 2
Noun
cocker (plural cockers)
A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
Etymology 3
Noun
cocker (plural cockers)
(UK, informal) Friend, mate.
Synonyms
• See friend
Verb
cocker (third-person singular simple present cockers, present participle cockering, simple past and past participle cockered)
To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
Synonyms
• cosset, pamper, posset; see also pamper
Anagrams
• recock
Source: Wiktionary
Cock"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cockered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cockering.] Etym: [OE. cokeren; cf. W. cocru to indulge, fondle, E. cock the bird, F. coqueliner to dandle (Cotgrave), to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls, and E. cockle, v.]
Definition: Th treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper. Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid. Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9. Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up. J. Ingelow.
Cock"er, n. Etym: [From Cock the bird.]
1. One given to cockfighting. [Obs.] Steele.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
Cock"er, n. Etym: [OE. coker qyiver, boot, AS. cocer quiver; akin to G. köcher quiver, and perh. originally meaning receptacle, holder. Cf. Quiver (for arrows).]
Definition: A rustic high shoe or half-boots. [Obs.] Drayton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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