cocker up en · VERB
Meanings
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |