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cocker up

cocker up verb: to indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).

Verb

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

  1. To indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).
    • ‘I think,’ said the irritated Blanford, ‘that we are all behaving like a gaggle of maiden aunts and the result will simply cocker up the girl's ego – already too swollen, in my humble opinion!’1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1115

Forms of cocker up

third-person singular presentcockers up
present participlecockering up
past participlecockered up
pastcockered up

Questions about cocker up

What does cocker up mean?
Cocker up means to indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).
What part of speech is cocker up?
Cocker up is a verb.
What is the past tense of cocker up?
The past tense of cocker up is cockered up.

Words near cocker up in the dictionary

  1. Cockenzie
  2. Cockenzie and Port Seton
  3. cocker
  4. cocker spaniel
  5. cocker spaniels
  6. cocker up
  7. cockered
  8. cockered up
  9. cockerel
  10. Cockerell
  11. cockerels

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