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

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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

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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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