cocker

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒkə/    美 /ˈkɑkəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
  2. A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
  3. Friend, mate. UK,informal
    — I been to see 'im. Not pretty. Ward sister tell me 'e'll be alright but not for a while yet. Concussion. Bloody 'ell! Lucky 'e wasn't killed, lump of lead like that. Lucky for you too, cocker...
  4. One who hunts woodcocks. dated
  5. A quiver. obsolete
  6. A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks. colloquial
  7. A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
    — You have your choice of two stock-mounted cocking aids: the Acudraw 50, an integral rope cocker, or the Acudraw crank-operated device.
动词 v.
  1. To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
    — […] shall a beardless boy, A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?

词形变化

cockers plural cockers plural cockers plural cockers present,singular,third-person cockering participle,present cockered participle,past cockered past

词汇关系

衍生词
cannon cocker cocker spaniel merry cocker schnocker

词源

词源 1
From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
词源 2
From Middle English coker (“a quiver, boot”) from Old English cocer (“quiver, case”) from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (“container, case”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”). More at quiver.
词源 3
Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English cokeren (“to pamper, coddle”); compare Welsh cocru (“to indulge, fondle”), French coqueliner (“to dandle, to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls”), and English cockle and cock (“rooster; to spoil”).
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