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cocker

Syllables: cock·er/ˈkɒkə/US/ˈkɑkəɹ/

cocker noun: one who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.

Noun (1)

cocker (plural cockers)

  1. One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
    Synonyms:
    cockfighter
  2. (dated) One who hunts woodcocks.
  3. (colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
  4. A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
    • You have your choice of two stock-mounted cocking aids: the Acudraw 50, an integral rope cocker, or the Acudraw crank-operated device.2007, Field and Stream - Volume 112, page 62
    • The down side is that they are hard to draw without special lever cockers.2011, Ritchie R. Moorhead, The Kid Looks Back-Short Stories & Tall Tales, page 48

Noun (2)

cocker (plural cockers)

  1. A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
  2. (obsolete) A quiver.

Noun (3)

cocker (plural cockers)

  1. (UK, informal) Friend, mate.
    • 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...1993, Arnold Wesker, Bluey
    • He said, 'Not my cup of Darjeeling, cocker. I've been more intellectually challenged at a kiddies' swimming gala.'2004, Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction, →ISBN, page 361
    Synonyms:
    friend

Verb

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

  1. To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
    • […] shall a beardless boy,
      A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, act V, scene 1
    • Cocker thy childe, and hee ſhall make thee afraid: play with him and he will bring thee to heauinesse.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 30:9
    Synonyms:
    cosset, pamper, posset

Proper noun capitalized: Cocker

Cocker (countable and uncountable, plural Cockers)

  1. A surname.
  2. A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
  3. A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.

cocker meaning in Tamil and Urdu

cocker in Tamil

சேவற்போர் ஆர்வலர், சேவற்சண்டை விரும்பி

cocker in Urdu

لاڈ کرنا

Examples of cocker in a sentence

  • The standard default cocking mechanism is the rope cocker.2013, Todd A. Kuhn, Shooter's Bible Guide to Bowhunting:
  • But if you was to ask your ma, she would tell you that poor folks can no ways afford to cocker themselves up as lying-in ladies do.1879, Jean Ingelow, chapter 1, in Sarah De Berenger, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 6:

Synonyms of cocker

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Forms of cocker

Noun
pluralcockers
Verb
third-person singular presentcockers
present participlecockering
past participlecockered
pastcockered
Proper noun
pluralCockers

Origin of cocker

From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).

From Middle English coker (“a quiver, boot”) from Old English cocer (“quiver, case”) from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (“container, case”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”). More at quiver.

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English cokeren (“to pamper, coddle”); compare Welsh cocru (“to indulge, fondle”), French coqueliner (“to dandle, to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls”), and English cockle and cock (“rooster; to spoil”).

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Questions about cocker

What does cocker mean?
Cocker means one who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
What is cocker in Tamil?
Cocker in Tamil is சேவற்போர் ஆர்வலர், சேவற்சண்டை விரும்பி. See Cocker meaning in Tamil.
How do you use cocker in a sentence?
The standard default cocking mechanism is the rope cocker.
What part of speech is cocker?
Cocker can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cocker?
Cocker is pronounced /ˈkɒkə/ (UK).
What is the plural of cocker?
The plural of cocker is cockers.

Words near cocker in the dictionary

  1. Cockell
  2. cockentrice
  3. cockentrices
  4. Cockenzie
  5. Cockenzie and Port Seton
  6. cocker
  7. cocker spaniel
  8. cocker spaniels
  9. cocker up
  10. cockered
  11. cockered up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cocker (page history and authors); Cocker (page history and authors); cocker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cocker (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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