cocker
Englisch
[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).
Nomen
[edit]cocker (plural cockers)
- One who breeds gamecocks oder 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.
- 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.
Nomen
[edit]cocker (plural cockers)
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”).
Nomen
[edit]cocker (plural cockers)
- (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]- See Thesaurus:friend
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]cocker (third-person singular simple present cockers, present participle cockering, simple past and past participle cockered)
- To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge oder pamper (particularly of children).
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John[1], act V, scene 1:
- […] shall a beardless boy,
A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […] ?
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 30:9:
- Cocker thy childe, and hee ſhall make thee afraid: play with him and he will bring thee to heauinesse.
- 1879, Jean Ingelow, chapter 1, in Sarah De Berenger[2], Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 6:
- But if you was to ask your ma, she would tell you that poor folks can no ways afford to cocker themselves up as lying-in ladies do.
Synonyms
[edit]- cosset, pamper, posset; see also Thesaurus:pamper
Derived terms
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English.
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]cocker m (plural cockers)
Further reading
[edit]- “cocker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English cocker spaniel.
Nomen
[edit]cocker m (invariable)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Nomen
[edit]cocker m (plural cockeri)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cocker | cockerul | (niște) cockeri | cockerii |
genitive/dative | (unui) cocker | cockerului | (unor) cockeri | cockerilor |
vocative | cockerule | cockerilor |
- English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)
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- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Hunnic
- English terms derived from Proto-Mongolic
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- English terms with unknown etymologies
- British English
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- fr:Dogs
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