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单词 cockey
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cockeyn.

Brit. /ˈkɒki/, U.S. /ˈkɑki/
Forms: Middle English kocay, Middle English–1500s cokey, 1500s cokkey, 1500s– cockey, 1900s– cocky.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, ea n.
Etymology: Probably < a first element of uncertain origin + ea n.The identity of the first element is uncertain and disputed, perhaps cock n.3 in a topographical application (compare discussion of place-name evidence at that entry) or perhaps a borrowing < the British base of Welsh coch red (see torgoch n.; compare other river-names cited by E. Ekwall Eng. River-names (1928) 83); for further suggestions, none very convincing, see K. I. Sandred & B. Lindström Place-names Norfolk (1989) i. 6–7. Earlier currency is implied by post-classical Latin cokeya (late 13th cent. in British sources; < English); compare:1285 in W. Hudson Rec. City of Norwich (1906) I. 226 Edificare..tenementum..super Cokeyam..debito cursu Cokeye supradicte. Also attested early in the names of particular watercourses in Norwich, especially the Great Cockey (c1277 as Kokeye; now lost), and also of streets and lanes which originally followed their course, e.g. Kokeye (1286; later Little Cockey Lane, now School Lane), Cockeye (1340; later Cockey Lane, now Back of the Inns and Castle Street), Kokeys Lane (1344; later Wellhouse Yard, now lost), Cokeye (1346; later Cockey Lane, now lost), etc.
English regional (East Anglian). Now chiefly historical.
In Norwich: a drain, gutter, or sewer. Also: a grating over such a stream to catch bulkier waste.Originally describing one of the natural streams flowing through Norwich which were utilized as drains or channels to carry sewage away to the river and later (from the 13th cent.) typically covered over.
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1390–1 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisdict. Norwich (1892) 71 Johannes Lekman Gardyner obstupavit quoddam commune Cokey distans a Wastelgate usque Newgatesend ad nocumentum.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 281 Kocay [?a1475 Winch. koley], priuy, cloaca.
1552 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 129 And over and besides that tenne poundes fowre poundes yerely moore in consideracion of the fyeing of the cokkeys.
1686 Court Bks. Norwich 1666–8 11 Sept. in W. Rye Depositions taken before Mayor & Aldermen of Norwich, 1549–67 (1905) (modernized text) 178 A flat cockey in White Lion Lane needed to convey away the water that annoys the neighbourhood there, the ancient cockey being out of repair.
1745 F. Blomefield Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk II. xlii. 648 The two Cockeys which meet here,..were open and passed over by Bridges 'till Ed. IV. Time, and then this Lane was first paved, and the Cockeys cover'd.
1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 377 Cockey, the grate over a common sewer. Hence, probably, Cockey-Lane, in Norwich.
1819 Topogr. & Hist. Acct. City & County of Norwich 125 The cleansing the city, so far as regards the draining of waste water, is performed by covered cockeys or sewers.
1851 W. Lee Rep. to Gen. Board of Health on Preliminary Inq. into Sewerage, Drainage, & Supply of Water Norwich 40 At the gullies, in such of the streets as have drains, there are large receptacles for solid refuse, called cockeys.
1894 Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) 23 Oct. 6/5 His attention had been called to every cockey in Lakenham that smelt badly.
1902 East Anglian 3rd Ser. 9 388 Kirkpatrick writes as if the cockey actually began at Jacks Pit, but the true place of its source was probably..further to the south-east.
1973 E. Fowler Broad Norfolk i. 14 Housewives used to empty the slops out of the upper windows of the old overhanging houses into the ‘cockeys’ (drains) that ran down the middle of the narrow cobbled streets.
2005 S. Elmes Talking for Brit. vi. 150 Memories of ‘tipping the water down the cocky’ (heavily glottalized: ‘co'ee’), an old word for drain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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