cocker
/ˈkɑkəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.81 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
noun
A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
Colloquial
verb
To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
Example Sentences
- "You have your choice of two stock-mounted cocking aids: the Acudraw 50, an integral rope cocker, or the Acudraw crank-operated device."
- "The down side is that they are hard to draw without special lever cockers."
- "The standard default cocking mechanism is the rope cocker."
- "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..."
- "He said, 'Not my cup of Darjeeling, cocker. I've been more intellectually challenged at a kiddies' swimming gala.'"
- "[…] shall a beardless boy, A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?"
Etymology
From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑkəɹ/
- British English: /ˈkɒkə/
Usage
- Dated
- Colloquial
- Obsolete
- British usage
- Informal
- Countable
- Uncountable