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nestlecock

nestlecock is the alternative form of nestle-cock.

Meaning of nestle-cock

Noun

nestle-cock (plural nestle-cocks)

  1. (UK, dialectal) The last-hatched chick of a brood, the weakling of a brood.
    Synonyms:
    nestlebub, runt
  2. (UK, broadly, dialectal) A mama's boy, a delicate child; a spoiled brat.
    • Indeed, my mother was wont to call me your Nestle-cock, and I love you as well as she did.c. 1621, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Anything for a Quiet Life, act 4, scene 1

Forms of nestlecock

pluralnestlecocks

Questions about nestlecock

What is nestlecock the alternative form of?
Nestlecock is the alternative form of nestle-cock.

Words near nestlecock in the dictionary

  1. nestle
  2. nestle-bird
  3. nestle-birds
  4. nestle-cock
  5. nestle-cocks
  6. nestlecock
  7. nestlecocks
  8. nestled
  9. nestler
  10. nestlers
  11. nestles

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