Topic
Cocker
1 passage cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 30:9ISBE
Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he will bring thee to heaviness.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 1 references
kok'-er (titheneo, "to nurse," "coddle," "pamper"): Occurs only in Ecclesiasticus 30:9 with the meaning "to pamper": "Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid"; so Shakespeare, "a cockered silken wanton"; now seldom used; Jean Ingelow, "Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves."
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.