according to Cocker
according to Cocker prepositional phrase: properly, correctly and reliably; in accordance with proper procedure and established rules.
Prepositional phrase
- Properly, correctly and reliably; in accordance with proper procedure and established rules.
- “Well, so you ought to be, according to Cocker, spending all your time in sick rooms.”
“According to who?”
“According to Cocker.”
“Who is Cocker?”
“Oh, I don't know; some old fellow who wrote the rules of arithmetic, I believe; it's only a bit of slang.[…]”1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “A Crisis”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 2nd, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 140 - A man rode at an Arab who fired and missed him, and then seized his spear, with the apparent intention of meeting him as an infantry soldier should, according to Cocker.1885, Lewis Hough, “Touch and Go!”, in For Fortune and Glory
- “Well, so you ought to be, according to Cocker, spending all your time in sick rooms.”
Origin of according to Cocker
UK circa 1760. Eponymous of Edward Cocker (1631–1676), teacher and author of the popular mathematics textbook known as Cocker's Arithmetick (1678).
Questions about according to Cocker
- What does according to Cocker mean?
- According to Cocker means properly, correctly and reliably; in accordance with proper procedure and established rules.
- What part of speech is according to Cocker?
- According to Cocker is a prepositional phrase.
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