The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cocker \Cock"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cockered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cockering.] [OE. cokeren; cf. W. cocru to indulge, fondle, E. cock the bird, F. coqueliner to dandle (Cotgrave), to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls, and E. cockle, v.] To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid.
--Ecclesiasticus
xxx. 9.
Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up.
--J.
Ingelow.
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vb. (en-past of: cocker)
Usage examples of "cockered".
It would have given me a thrust of fear but that I already knew (and had seen growing signs of it lately) how that wife of his cockered and cosseted him, like a hen with one chicken — not, I'd swear, through any true fears, but to keep him at home and away from the palace.