cockey
/kˈɑki/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative spelling of cocky.
noun
noun
Alternative spelling of cocky (“cockatoo; cockatoo farmer”).
verb
Alternative spelling of cocky.
noun
Alternative spelling of kocay.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""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."
- "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."
- "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."