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cockers up

cockers up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 cockers up

What is cockers up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cockers up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cocker up.

Words near cockers up in the dictionary

  1. cockernonnies
  2. cockernony
  3. cockerpoo
  4. cockerpoos
  5. cockers
  6. cockers up
  7. Cockerton
  8. Cockertons
  9. cocket
  10. cocket writer
  11. cocket writers

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