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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COCKER, v.t. To fondle; to indulge; to treat with tenderness; to pamper.
COCKER, n.
1. One who follows cock-fighting.
2. A sort of spatter-dash.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England [syn: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel, cocker] v
1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English cokeren Date: 15th century indulge, pamper II. noun Date: 1689 a keeper or handler of fighting cocks III. noun Date: circa 1811 cocker spaniel

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (in full cocker spaniel) 1 a small spaniel of a breed with a silky coat. 2 this breed. Etymology: as COCK(1), from use in hunting woodcocks etc.

Webster's 1913 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cocker Cock"er, n. [From Cock the bird.] 1. One given to cockfighting. [Obs.] --Steele. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kok'-er (titheneo, "to nurse," "coddle," "pamper"): Occurs only in Ecclesiasticus 30:9 with the meaning "to pamper": "Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid"; so Shakespeare, "a cockered silken wanton"; now seldom used; Jean Ingelow, "Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves."

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. (Rare.) Indulge (unduly), fondle, pamper.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

One fond of the diversion of cock-fighting.