cockshy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 21
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 7
Definition of cockshy
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.
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noun
- A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.
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An object at which stones are flung; (by extension) a person who is abused or vilified.
“He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or ‘cockshy’ […]”
verb
- (ambitransitive)To pelt; to throw things at.
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Etymology
From cock + shy; so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
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