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Definition of Cockies
1. cocky [n] - See also: cocky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockies
Literary usage of Cockies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"... the Antipodes I have heard agriculturists, whose holdings were small, spoken
of, not as "cockies" but as "COCKATOO FARMERS." ' COCKATRICE, subs. (old). ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1897)
"... the outlines of which are still apparent in a building occupied by one of the
ancient cockies ran through this Watergate, Mr. George Base, oil-merchant. ..."
3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1897)
"... a saw-mill and paid off his land with the sale of the sawn timber to his fellow
cockies; and while his cash account rose that of the publican sank, ..."
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