Etymology: Apparently < Anglo-Norman coket (especially in pan (de) coket ) (13th cent.), of uncertain origin; perhaps the same word as coket cocket n.², and so called because stamped with a seal, but supporting evidence for this is lacking. Compare post-classical Latin coketus, cokettus (from the mid 13th cent. in British sources in both senses).It is unclear whether early examples of vernacular coket in Latin sources (such as the following) should be interpreted as showing the Anglo-Norman or the English word, although the former is more likely:?1256 Assisa Panis et Cervisie in Statutes of Realm (1810) I. 199 Quando quarterium frumenti venditur pro xijd. tunc panis quadrantis de Wastello ponderabit sex libras & sexdecim solidos. Panis de Coket de eodem blado & de eodem bultello, ponderabit plusquam Wastellum de duobus solidis. De blado minoris precii ponderabit plusquam Wastellum de quinque..Panis integer de quadrante de frumento ponderabit Coket & dimidium..Et panis de omni blado ponderabit duos Coketos.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman coket, cokette customs post (late 13th cent. or earlier), customs seal, customs certificate, customs duty (14th cent. or earlier), of unknown origin. Compare post-classical Latin coketus, cokettus, coketa, coketta, coketum, cokettum customs seal (frequently from mid 13th cent. in British sources), customs certificate, customs duty (from early 14th cent. in British sources); apparently < Anglo-Norman.It has been suggested that the name originated in a reduced form (*coketus est ) of the Latin words quo quietus est ‘by which he is quit’, with which the Customer's receipt concluded; see further S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. (1878) I. 171–2. However, it is unclear whether the name originally belonged to the document or to the seal which gave it validity (in which sense the word is earliest attested in Latin). It is unclear whether the following earlier examples (from Latin sources) should be interpreted as showing the Anglo-Norman or the English word, although the former is more likely:1293 Rolls of Parl.: Edward I (Electronic ed.) Roll 7, Parl. Michaelmas 1293 §10. m. 5 Omnes homines venientes cum lanis..sine signo quod vocatur Coket.1298 in T. Madox Hist. & Antiq. Exchequer (1711) 782 Quod illam partem sigilli Regis quod vocatur Coket, & quod Rex ad dictam custumam deputari fecit in portu prædicto [sc. Novum Castrum super Tynam].1379 in H. C. Maxwell-Lyte Cal. Close Rolls: Richard II (1914) I. 191 [All the letters called] cokettes. With sense 3 compare rare cockettum, cocketum, in the same sense (only in dictionaries; apparently < an unattested sense of post-classical Latin cokettum):1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Cockettum, Cocketum, the Office at the Custom-House where the Goods to be Exported are entered.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < cock n.¹ + -et suffix¹, after Anglo-Norman and Middle French (Picardy) coket weathercock (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman and Old French; French regional (Normandy) coquet young cockerel, weathercock); compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French cochet young cockerel, weathercock (c1200). With the semantic development compare hennin n. Perhaps compare later cocket adj.Attempts to connect the word with later cocked adj.³ 1 and cock v.¹ 5 (interpreting set on koket as meaning ‘set at a rakish angle’) are unconvincing on formal and chronological grounds.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps (i) < French coquet eager to please, elegant (although this is first attested later: 1643; use as adjective of coquet coquet n. and its earlier feminine equivalent coquette coquette n.), with change of sense with allusion to the strutting manner of the cockerel (compare cock v.¹ 2 and 4, cocking adj.¹ 2, and cock n.¹ 13), or perhaps (ii) a derivative of either cock n.¹ or cock v.¹ with a suffix of uncertain identity (-ed suffix¹, -ed suffix², and -et suffix¹ all pose either formal or semantic problems), perhaps influenced in form by French coquet , coquette . Perhaps compare slightly earlier simper-de-cocket n., but compare the discussion at that entry. Compare later cocky adj. Perhaps compare also cocksure adj. (although cocksure adj. 4, with reference to arrogance, is later).With regard to the meaning of the word, perhaps compare also Middle French, French †coquard (noun) pretentious fool (early 14th cent. in Old French), (adjective) foolish, silly, conceited (mid 14th cent.), boastful (15th cent.), cheerful (1611 in Cotgrave; compare quot. 1611 at sense 2); compare cockade n. In the forms cocked and (in some later uses also) cockit probably with remodelling after -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: Either < cocket n.² or directly < Anglo-Norman coketter (first half of the 14th cent. or earlier). Compare post-classical Latin coketare, cokettare (from 1320 in British sources).With cocketing n.¹ compare post-classical Latin cokettatio, in the same sense (1397 in a British source).

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Apparently related to later cock v.⁴, although the nature of the relationship is unclear. Perhaps compare Italian †cocchetta part of a cogwheel (1598 in Florio), diminutive of cocca notch of an arrow (see cock n.⁹).

Etymology: Imitative of the call of the male pheasant. Compare later cocket, cucket (interjection), representing the call of the male pheasant (late 19th cent.).