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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cocker up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).
    • ‘I think,’ said the irritated Blanford, ‘that we are all behaving like a gaggle of maiden aunts and the result will simply cocker up the girl's ego – already too swollen, in my humble opinion!’ 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1115:

Forms

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cockers up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
cockered up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cockered up Tense=Past lexicographic
cockering up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic