cocker
noun
cockering
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present participleof cocker.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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And as to our Jeanie, they are all cockering her up till she'll no be content with a king.
From Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Sometimes they pine and fall into a slow consumption, we nursing, cockering, and physicking them to the last.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
It's cockering themselves, and it's ignorance, Madam, it's not poverty.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
At the same time he prophesied his hopes of me, and many a judicious person blamed him for treating me as something out of the ordinary, and cockering up pride.
From Lazarre by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
She had been a cockering, fawning nurse to me not so many months ago.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala
