cocker up

English

Verb

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

1. To indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).
   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1115:

     ‘I think,’ said the irritated Blanford, ‘that we are all behaving like a gaggle of maiden aunts and the result will simply cocker up the girl's ego – already too swollen, in my humble opinion!’