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cockaˈlorum colloq.
[A derivative of cock, app. playful and arbitrary. Cf., however, Du. kockeloeren to crow (Hexham).]
1. Applied to a person: = Little or young cock, bantam; self-important little man.
c1715Jacobite Minstrelsy (1829) 47 Hey for Sandy Don! Hey for Cockolorum! Hey for Bobbing John, And his Highland quorum! [Cockolorum means the Marquis of Huntly, whose father, the Duke of Gordon, was called ‘Cock of the North’.] 1815–20in Daily News 6 Dec. 1889 In my school days, from 1815 to 1820, we often heard in the playground: ‘Now little cockalorum, out o' that’. 1871R. Ellis Catullus liii. 5 He..Cried ‘God bless us! a wordy cockalorum!’ 1881Contemp. Rev. Mar. 437 Lord James Butler as high cockalorum of the Protestants.
2. Self-important narration; ‘crowing’.
1884Pall Mall G. 19 July 4/2 Slovenliness with an unpleasant infusion of what has been known in his profession ever since the Franco-German war days as ‘cockalorum’.
3. hey (hay, hi, high) cockalorum: an ejaculation or exclamation; also a boy's game in which one set of players jump astride the others (who present a chain of ‘backs’), calling out Hey cockalorum, jig, jig, jig! (Hey cockalorum jig! is given as refrain of a popular song c 1800). high cockalorum jig: name of a game of cards.
1823Galt Entail II. 260 (Jam.) I'll let no grass grow beneath my feet, till I hae gi'en your father notice of this loup-the-window and hey cockalorum-like love. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Witches' Frolic, Now away! and away! without delay, Hey Cockalorum! my Broomstick gay! 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. iii, Prisoner's-base, rounders, high-cock-a-lorum, cricket, foot-ball, he was soon initiated into the delights of them all. 1860Illustr. London News 7 Jan. 24/2 The little innocents, however, chiefly devote their energies to mud-pie manufacture and the games of Mulberry-bush, I-spy-I, Hi Cockolorum, Hopscotch, or Buttons. 1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 164/2 Mock Latin: bonus, bogus, hocus-pocus, hi-cocalorum (hic, hoc, horum?). 1950C. Fry Venus Observed 82 The seven seas, and the milky way And morning, and evening, and hi-cockalorum are in it. 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games viii. 257 Croydon boys call it [sc. the game] not only ‘Hi Jimmy Knacker’, but ‘Bung the Barrel’, ‘Hi Cockalorum’, [etc.]. |