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cockey en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From cock + -ey (adjectival suffix).

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of cocky.
   alt of cocky
   • When Yvette came out of the bathroom, I said baby turn on the cd player. For what the only singing you gonna hear is your own when I get up in you. She's getting cockey I thought. 2008, V. Montrell Jones, The Grass is Bluer on the Other Side, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 75:

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cockey en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From cock + -ey (diminutive suffix).

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of cocky (term of endearment)
   alt of cocky
   • "Go on board that little cockleshell of yourn?"—pointing to the splendid yacht—"not if I knows it, my cockeys! This old oss is spry to when he is well off—so make tracks and be off, before you gits this old coon's dander up. 1870 July, “Old Calabar” [pseudonym], “A Sporting Story”, in Baily’s Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, and Turf Guide, volume XVIII, number 125, London: A. H. Baily & Co., […], →OCLC, chapter VI (Mr. Bouncer Brag Composes), page 306:

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cockey en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

From cock(atoo) + -ey (diminutive suffix).

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of cocky (“cockatoo; cockatoo farmer”).
   alt of cocky

Forms

cockey en · VERB · etymology 3

Etymology

From cock(atoo) + -ey (diminutive suffix).

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of cocky.
   alt of cocky
   • Perhaps I ought to try getting a job somewhere cockeying. But I was against this. I was after Hanabeke and, as far as I could work out, Womboolah was the most likely place for him to be. 1983, Dudley St. John Magnus, Hanabeke, London: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN, page 43:
   • But if we are bigger built than you blokes, I suppose it's 'coz we—most of us—live away from big cities, and everybody goes in for sport an' all that; plenty of ridin' an' walkin' an' swimmin' and football an' hard work. Most of us are off the land, cockeying, and the blokes who come from the cities, Sydney and places like that, they all go in for surfing an' all kinds of sport. 1919, C. Hampton Thorp, “About Various Things”, in A Handful of Ausseys, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 116:

Forms

cockey en · NOUN · etymology 4

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of kocay.
   alt of kocay

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