Crossword clues for cocker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Cocker \Cock"er\, n. [From Cock the bird.]
One given to cockfighting. [Obs.]
--Steele.(Zo["o]l.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
Cocker \Cock"er\, n. [OE. coker qyiver, boot, AS. cocer quiver;
akin to G. k["o]cher quiver, and perh. originally meaning
receptacle, holder. Cf. Quiver (for arrows).]
A rustic high shoe or half-boots. [Obs.]
--Drayton.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context dated English) one who breeds gamecocks or arranges cockfights. 2 (context dated English) One who hunts gamecocks. 3 # (context colloquial English) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting gamecocks. Etymology 2
n. A rustic high shoe, half-boots Etymology 3
n. (context UK informal English) friend, mate. vb. To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (context particularly of children English)
WordNet
n. a small breed with a wavy silky hair originally developed in England [syn: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel]
v. treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
Wikipedia
Cocker may mean:
- Cocker, one who follows the sport of cockfighting
- Cocker Spaniel, a dog
- River Cocker, Cumbria, a river in the English county of Cumbria
- River Cocker (Lancashire), a river in the English county of Lancashire
- Edward Cocker (1631–1676), English engraver, who also taught writing and arithmetic
- Jarvis Cocker (b. 1963), English musician, frontman of Pulp
- Joe Cocker (1944–2014), English rock/blues singer
- Linzey Cocker (b. 1987), English actress
- Mark Cocker (b. 1959), British author and naturalist
- Norman Cocker (1889–1953), English organist and composer for the organ
- Syl Cheney-Cocker (b. 1945), Sierra Leonean poet, novelist, and journalist
- W. D. Cocker (1882–1970), Scottish poet
- Abbreviation of Autococker, a paintball marker.
Cocker is the tenth studio album by Joe Cocker, released in April 1986, his second on Capitol label. It features hit singles " You Can Leave Your Hat On" and "Don't You Love Me Anymore", the first made popular after its use in the famous striptease scene in the film 9 1/2 Weeks. Released as a single, Cocker's version of the song peaked at No. 35 on Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The album also features rendition of Marvin Gaye's " Inner City Blues", a Motown legend's classic lament to urban decay.
Where Civilized Man, Cocker's previous album, had two producers, Cocker had five. Also, the recording sessions took place in several studios in London, Memphis, Los Angeles and New York. The reason for this was Capitol trying out on Joe Cocker a formula that had brought success for Tina Turner. The album also featured, for the first time since 1976's Stingray, Cocker's touring band, who played on five tracks.
The release of Cocker was preceded by a single "Shelter Me", a powerful opener from the album, featuring rousing performances from guitarist Cliff Goodwin and saxophonist Mel Collins.
The album is dedicated to Joe Cocker's mother, Marjorie (Madge) Cocker, who died during the recording sessions.
Usage examples of "cocker".
The two scientists in charge of project CFD, Professor Drew Cocker and Professor Lindy Wheen, were waiting for their benefactor as he was wheeled into the central chamber of the complex.
Meanwhile Milo Shipp, author, a thin man in a bow tie, sat in a wooden chair stunned, with a cookie in one hand and a large cocker spaniel on his lap, while a young boy grinding an eggbeater ran in and out of the room.
Sheldrake, had got a Fourth in History and was only chosen for his present post because he was a member of the Freemasons, or that the yapping little cocker spaniel of a man who tried to teach us football had been dismissed from a job at Borstal for suspected buggery and even and this was a story which lasted with considerable embellishments throughout the whole of one long, wet summer term that the angry string bean of a man who taught us French had been a close friend of Burgess and Maclean and lived in daily terror of being arrested as an old Cambridge leftie and still-active Soviet spy.
I hardly know one breed from the next, with the exception of Chihuahuas, cocker spaniels, and other obvious types.
Everything the girls could possibly want was provided, a beautiful suite on the third floor schoolroom, playroom, bedroom with four-poster beds under flowered canopies, paired cocker spaniel puppies, Chestnut and Cinnamon, matched ponies to ride on the grounds and in the hilly woods just beyond the stone walls, a perennially changing cast of servants, hastily paid off to avoid recriminations.
On the edge of his desk sat the newly shorn ivy, looking like a cocker spaniel with a summer clip.
In the living room behind him stood his wife, her arms full of a squirming black-and-white cocker spaniel, one hand firmly clamped over its muzzle.
I'm not dog oriented by nature and I hardly know one breed from the next, with the exception of Chihuahuas, cocker spaniels, and other obvious types.
Something small collides with her ankles and pulls her back to the moment - one of the twins' miniature cockers, furry and compact as a little meatloaf, solid and warm against her.
I'm bringing the cocker spaniel puppies I told her about for show-and-tell.
She touched an alphabetical sequence-SUNSHINE, the name of Parker's cocker spaniel-and heard another beep.
As I walked back and forth, stowing the necessaries I had brought along, I kept seeing unexpected reflections of myself out of the corner of my eye, a brown slab of meat piled higher than is customary, the stride a loose-jointed shamble -knuckly scarified McGee-san, hoping that all dragons which need slaying will be the size of cocker spaniels, with their teeth and claws worn down from chawing bolder knights, their fiery halitosis fresh out of flints and fluid.
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.
Most cockers use plain alcohol to clean spurs, but typewriter solvent is fast-drying and, in my opinion, removes the dirt easier.
Many cockers resent the referee's examination of a cock's heels, but I never have.