Cocker
Cocker , transitive verb
[Old English cokeren; compare Welsh cocru to indulge, fondle, English cock the bird, French coqueliner to dandle (Cotgrave), to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls, and English cockle, v.]
To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid.
Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up.
Cocker , noun
[From Cock the bird.]
1.
One given to cockfighting. [Obsolete] — Steele
2.
(Zoology) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
Cocker , noun
[Old English coker qyiver, boot, Anglo-Saxon cocer quiver; akin to German kocher quiver, and perh. originally meaning receptacle, holder. Compare Quiver (for arrows).]
A rustic high shoe or half-boots. [Obsolete] — Drayton