# cocker
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒkə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑkəɹ/
* Rhymes: -ɒkə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: cock‧er

### Etymology 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).

#### Noun

cocker (plural cockers)
* One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
    Synonym: cockfighter
* (dated) One who hunts woodcocks.
* (colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
* A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
** 2007, Field and Stream - Volume 112, page 62:You have your choice of two stock-mounted cocking aids: the Acudraw 50, an integral rope cocker, or the Acudraw crank-operated device.
** 2011, Ritchie R. Moorhead, The Kid Looks Back-Short Stories & Tall Tales, page 48:The down side is that they are hard to draw without special lever cockers.
** 2013, Todd A. Kuhn, Shooter's Bible Guide to Bowhunting:The standard default cocking mechanism is the rope cocker.

##### Derived terms

* cannon cocker
* cocker spaniel
* merry cocker
* schnocker

### Etymology 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.

#### Noun

cocker (plural cockers)
* A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
* (obsolete) A quiver.

### Etymology 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”).

#### Noun

cocker (plural cockers)
* (UK, informal) Friend, mate.
** 1993, Arnold Wesker, Bluey: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...
** 2004, Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction, →ISBN, page 361:He said, 'Not my cup of Darjeeling, cocker. I've been more intellectually challenged at a kiddies' swimming gala.'

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:friend

##### Derived terms

* old cocker

#### Verb

cocker (third-person singular simple present cockers, present participle cockering, simple past and past participle cockered)
* To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
** c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John‎, act V, scene 1:[…] shall a beardless boy, A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […] ?
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 30:9:Cocker thy childe, and hee ſhall make thee afraid: play with him and he will bring thee to heauinesse.
** 1879, Jean Ingelow, chapter 1, in Sarah De Berenger‎, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 6:But if you was to ask your ma, she would tell you that poor folks can no ways afford to cocker themselves up as lying-in ladies do.

##### Synonyms

* cosset, pamper, posset; see also Thesaurus:pamper

##### Derived terms

* cocker up

### References

* ↑ Etymology dictionary, enacademic.com, "quiver"

### Anagrams

* recock

## French
### Etymology

From English.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.kœʁ/, /kɔ.kɛʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cocker m (plural cockers)
* cocker spaniel

### Further reading

* “cocker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English cocker spaniel.

### Noun

cocker m (invariable)
* cocker spaniel

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cocker.

### Noun

cocker m (plural cockeri)
* cocker spaniel