cockshy

American  

[kok-shahy] / ˈkɒkˌʃaɪ /

noun

British.

cockshies plural

1. the act or sport of throwing missiles at a target.

2. the target itself.

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cockshy British  

/ ˈkɒkˌʃaɪ /

noun

1. a target aimed at in throwing games

2. the throw itself.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cockshies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cockshy

First recorded in 1785–95; cock ¹ + shy ²

Example Sentences

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cockshy cockshies

Freed from the necessity of a systematic delineation Smollett rambles about Nice, its length and breadth, with a stone in his pouch, and wherever a cockshy is available he takes full advantage of it.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Russell's Top was another "Apex" and a cockshy for any enemy guns that were within range.

From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Collett, Herbert Brayley

Four men came tumbling down, one after the other, like dolls at a cockshy.

From 813 by Leblanc, Maurice

“They’re a-making cockshies of us, sir,” said Tom Jecks; “better let two of us go ashore and chivvy ’em off.”

From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by Handforth, W.B.

Swings, roundabouts, cockshies at cocoa-nuts, rootletum, tootletum, and beer.

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Jefferies, Richard

At various places great water-tanks and reservoirs had been toppled over and smashed as though some diabolical power had made cockshies of them.

From The Soul of the War by Gibbs, Philip

Such is this theory—like its predecessor it is put up for cockshies, and doubtless by our balloon work or by some other observations it will be upset or modified.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon