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单词 to cocker up
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to cocker up
to cocker up
1. transitive. To indulge or pamper (a person); to make (a person) proud or self-important by flattery or indulgence. Also: to coddle (a person suffering from an illness, incapacity, etc.) so as to improve his or her condition. Cf. to cock up 1 at cock v.1 Phrasal verbs. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > be infatuatedly fond or love to excess [verb (transitive)] > pet, indulge, or pamper
daunt1303
cocker1440
cherisha1450
pomper1483
daut?a1513
to cocker up1530
pamper1530
pimper1537
tiddle1560
cockle1570
dandlea1577
cotchel1578
cockney1582
fondle1582
coax1589
to coax up1592
to flatter up1598
dainty1622
pet1629
cosset1659
caudle1662
faddle1688
pettle1719
coddle1786
sugar-plum1788
twattle1790
to make a fuss of or over (with)1814
mud1814
pamperizea1845
mollycoddle1851
pompey1860
cosher1861
pussy1889
molly1907
the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > encourage or embolden [verb (transitive)]
hearteOE
bieldc897
hardenc1175
elnea1225
hardyc1225
boldc1275
hardishc1325
endurec1384
assurec1386
emboldc1400
recomfortc1405
enharda1450
support1479
enhardy1483
animatec1487
encourage1490
emboldishc1503
hearten1524
bolden1526
spright1531
raise1533
accourage1534
enheart1545
to hearten on1555
hearten?1556
alacriate1560
bespirit1574
bebrave1576
to put in heart1579
to hearten up1580
embolden1583
bravea1593
enhearten1610
inspiritc1610
rehearten1611
blood1622
mana1625
valiant1628
flush1633
firm1639
buoy1645
embrave1648
reinhearten1652
reanimate1655
reinspirit1660
to give mettle to1689
warm1697
to lift (up) a person's spirits1711
reman1715
to make a man of1722
respirit1725
elate1726
to cocker up1762
enharden1779
nerve1799
boost1815
brace1816
high-mettle1831
braven1865
brazen1884
the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > practise the healing art [verb (transitive)] > tend the sick > coddle or nurse excessively
to cocker up1850
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 488/2 Coker hym up thus in his youthe, and you shall have a fayre caulfe of hym shortly.
1762 T. Gray Let. 4 Dec. in Corr. (1971) II. 787 Being cocker'd and spirited up by some friends..I got my name suggested to Lord Bute.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. viii. 132 If she was a lady she'd be cockered up with all sorts of soups and jellies.
1859 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 229 You have cockered me up to that extent, that I now feel I can face a score of savage reviewers.
1938 Santa Fe New Mexican 26 July 4/6 Actually Royalty was never more pampered, more cockered up than we were.
2. transitive. With in. To indulge or humour (a person) with regard to a foolish or reprehensible desire, tendency, or belief. Obsolete.
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society > authority > lack of strictness > lessen in strictness or severity [verb (transitive)] > indulge
to cocker up1550
soothe1569
cock1570
cocker1571
soothe1573
humour1598
indulge1660
gratify1662
1550 J. Harington tr. Cicero Bk. Freendeship f. 57 But yet sowthing is much more hurtfull, whiche cokereth vp his freende in his faultes [L. peccatis indulgens].
1613 W. B. tr. S. Michaelis Admirable Hist. Penitent Woman 170 Thou Belzebub, thou..doest fill men with curiositie, and cocker them vp in their arrogancie [Fr. & qui les maintiens tousiours auec leur orgueil].
a1732 J. Gay Fables (1738) II. xi. 97 Blame me not for disrespect, If I the flatt'rer's stile reject; With that, by menial tongues supply'd, You're daily cocker'd up in pride.
1887 S. Baring-Gould Gaverocks II. xxviii. 94 ‘Scarce a day has passed without her coming here to see [mother]—’ ‘And cocker her up in the delusion that she is ill... She has nothing the matter with her but the vapours.’
1918 National Rev. Jan. 530 Men in his position are completely out of touch with public opinion, and practically only talk politics with their hangers-on who ‘cocker them up’ in their own conceit.
3. transitive. To foster or indulge (a foolish or reprehensible desire, tendency, or belief). Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > further [verb (transitive)] > appetites, ideas, etc.
cocker?1561
to cocker up1583
1583 J. Prime Fruitefull & Briefe Disc. i. 32 He knoweth Elie suffred his children to breake his owne necke. Verily the fancies and affections, that are bred in & of man, if he cocker them vp, they will bring him to a worse end then Elies was.
1652 W. Durham Maran-atha 36 What greater wonder is it that he who is resolved to keep and cocker up his basest lusts, should hate that Ministery, which plows up his soul, and suffers them not to root nor grow at quiet?
1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lii. 321 [He] cockers up that dangerous Propensity, which he ought..to subdue.
1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clxxv. 208 If they cocker up the evil by refusing to apply the high-handed remedy.
1963 Times 14 Feb. 15/2 Almost all the pressures in modern society help to cocker-up the self-importance of the common man, and to weaken his self-respect.
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