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cockering up

cockering up is the present participle and gerund of cocker up.

Meaning of cocker up

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

Questions about cockering up

What is cockering up the present participle and gerund of?
Cockering up is the present participle and gerund of cocker up.

Words near cockering up in the dictionary

  1. cockerels
  2. Cockerham
  3. Cockerhams
  4. Cockerill
  5. cockering
  6. cockering up
  7. cockermeg
  8. cockermegs
  9. Cockermouth
  10. cockerney
  11. cockerneys

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