cockey

See also: Cockey

English

Etymology 1

From cock +‎ -ey.

Adjective

cockey (comparative more cockey, superlative most cockey)

1. Alternative spelling of cocky
   • 2008, V. Montrell Jones, The Grass is Bluer on the Other Side, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 75:

     When Yvette came out of the bathroom, I said baby turn on the cd player. For what the only singing you gonna hear is your own when I get up in you. She's getting cockey I thought.

Noun

cockey (plural cockeys)

1. Alternative spelling of cocky (term of endearment)
   • 1870 July, “Old Calabar” [pseudonym], “A Sporting Story”, in Baily’s Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, and Turf Guide, volume XVIII, number 125, London: A. H. Baily & Co., […], →OCLC, chapter VI (Mr. Bouncer Brag Composes), page 306:

     "Go on board that little cockleshell of yourn?"—pointing to the splendid yacht—"not if I knows it, my cockeys! This old oss is spry to when he is well off—so make tracks and be off, before you gits this old coon's dander up.

Etymology 2

From cock(atoo) +‎ -ey.

Noun

cockey (plural cockeys)

1. Alternative spelling of cocky (“cockatoo; cockatoo farmer”)

Verb

cockey (third-person singular simple present cockeys, present participle cockeying, simple past and past participle cockeyed)

1. Alternative spelling of cocky
   • 1919, C. Hampton Thorp, “About Various Things”, in A Handful of Ausseys, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 116:

     But if we are bigger built than you blokes, I suppose it's 'coz we—most of us—live away from big cities, and everybody goes in for sport an' all that; plenty of ridin' an' walkin' an' swimmin' and football an' hard work. Most of us are off the land, cockeying, and the blokes who come from the cities, Sydney and places like that, they all go in for surfing an' all kinds of sport.

   • 1983, Dudley St. John Magnus, Hanabeke, London: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN, page 43:

     Perhaps I ought to try getting a job somewhere cockeying. But I was against this. I was after Hanabeke and, as far as I could work out, Womboolah was the most likely place for him to be.

Etymology 3

Noun

cockey (plural cockeys)

1. Alternative spelling of kocay