Cockmatch
(Cock"match`) n. A cockfight.
Cockney
(Cock"ney) n.; pl. Cockneys (- niz). [OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate
person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg
AS. æg. See 1st Cock, Egg, n.]
1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash
This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
Shak.
2. A native or resident of the city of London; — used contemptuously.
A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
Macaulay.
Cockney
(Cock"ney), a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
Cockneydom
(Cock"ney*dom) n. The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.
Cockneyfy
(Cock"ney*fy) v. t. [Cockney + -fy.] To form with the manners or character of a cockney.
[Colloq.]
Cockneyish
(Cock"ney*ish), a. Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.
Cockneyism
(Cock"ney*ism) n. The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.
Cock-paddle
(Cock"-pad`dle) n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.) See Lumpfish. [Scot.]
Cockpit
(Cock"pit`) n.
1. A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.
Henry the Eighth had built . . . a cockpit.
Macaulay.
2. The Privy Council room at Westminster; — so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall
palace. Brande & C.
3. (Naut.) (a) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement. (b) In
yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to
the cabin.
Cockroach
(Cock"roach) n. [Sp. cucaracha.] (Zoöl.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and
allied genera.
The species are numerous, especially in hot countries. Those most commonly infesting houses in Europe
and North America are Blatta orientalis, a large species often called black beetle, and the Croton bug
(Ectobia Germanica).
Cockscomb
(Cocks"comb`) n. [1st cock, n. + comb crest.]
1. See Coxcomb.
2. (Bot.) A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant
flowers; — sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus
Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.
Cockshead
(Cocks"head`) n. (Bot.) A leguminous herb having small spiny-crested pods.
