cocker
noun
cockered
Example Sentences
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Likely enough that there were good-for-nothing, cockered menials imposing upon incompetent mistresses.
From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
"Well, let him e'en stay," said Sir John; "it will be a better training for him than among the gilded little varlets who are cockered up among Princess Joan's ladies."
From The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte Mary Yonge
She is a cockered, discontented dame, who has swooned as many times as other women have sighed.
From A Hungarian Nabob by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
What's the House of Commons that it should be cockered up with the truth?
From Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore
He and his wife they flattered and cockered her up.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
