Cocker Definition

kŏkər
cockers
noun
cockers
Webster's New World
A person who breeds or trains fighting cocks.
Webster's New World
A person who promotes or attends cockfights.
American Heritage
A man, esp. an old one: a jocular or derogatory term.
Webster's New World
A rustic high shoe, half-boots.
Wiktionary
verb
To coddle; pamper.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cocker

Noun

Singular:
cocker
Plural:
cockers

Origin of Cocker

  • Origin uncertain. Perhaps Old English cokeren; 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 (“a bird”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English coker "a quiver, boot" from Old English cocer "quiver, case" from Proto-Germanic *kukur- (“container, case”). More at quiver.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English cokeren

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From cock (the bird).

    From Wiktionary

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