name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
cocker
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒkə/
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General-American: /ˈkɑkəɹ/
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rhymes with -ɒkə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
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name
Meaning 3
A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.
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noun
Meaning 4
One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
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Synonyms: cockfighter
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noun
Meaning 5
One who hunts woodcocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
Meaning 6
A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
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noun
Meaning 7
A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
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noun
Meaning 8
A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
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noun
Meaning 9
A quiver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 10
Friend, mate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, informal
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verb
Meaning 11
To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
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noun
Meaning 12
a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel
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Broader terms: spaniel
verb
Meaning 13
treat with excessive indulgence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- grandparents often pamper the children
- Let's not mollycoddle our students!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pamper, featherbed, cosset, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
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Broader terms: treat, handle, do by
History
Etymology
* As an English surname, from the verb cock (“to fight, wrangle”), itself from the bird. The river in Lancashire is also from the bird. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cock (sense 3) (“heap of hay”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Kocher. * The river in Cumbria is of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *kukrā (“the crooked one”).
From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
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, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”). More at quiver.
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”).