Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockered
Literary usage of Cockered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Notes and Queries edited by William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris (1890)
"It is there pointed out that, as applied to a person, it had, primarily, the
sense of " cockered or pet child," and was used, later, to denote the sort of ..."
2. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the by William Aldis Wright, Jonathan Eastwood (1884)
"They that are borne in Seriphos, and cockered continually in those Islandes,
where they see nothing but Foxes, and Hares, wil neuer be persuaded that there ..."
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