cocker

English

Etymology 1

From cock (the bird).

Noun

cocker (plural cockers)

1. (dated) someone who breeds gamecocks, or arranges cockfights
2. a cocker spaniel

Etymology 2

From Middle English coker "a quiver, boot" from Old English cocer "quiver, case" from Proto-Germanic *kukur- (“container, case”). More at quiver.

Noun

cocker (plural cockers)

1. A rustic high shoe, half-boots

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain. Perhaps Old English cokeren; 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 (“a bird”).

Verb

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

1. To indulge or pamper (someone).
   • Bible, Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9

     Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid.

   • J. Ingelow

     Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up.

Derived terms

• cocker up

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French

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Etymology

English

Noun

cocker m (plural cockers)

1. cocker spaniel

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Italian

Noun

cocker m (invariable)

1. cocker spaniel