单词 | to cocker up |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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