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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You want cockering up," he said, "and coddling and waiting on.
From A Life Sentence A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
It's cockering themselves, and it's ignorance, Madam, it's not poverty.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
Sometimes they pine and fall into a slow consumption, we nursing, cockering, and physicking them to the last.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
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
And Eleanor, with all her gentle courtesy and kindness, was strictly withheld by her husband from pampering or cockering his pages; nor did she ever transgress his will.
From The Prince and the Page; a story of the last crusade by Charlotte Mary Yonge
