different between cocker vs clocker

English

Etymology 1

From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), +? -er.

Noun

cocker (plural cockers)

1. One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.

   Synonym: cockfighter

2. (dated) One who hunts woodcocks.
   1. (colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
3. A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.

Derived terms

• cocker spaniel

Etymology 2

From Middle English coker (“a quiver, boot”) from Old English cocer (“quiver, case”) from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (“container, case”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”). More at quiver.

Noun

cocker (plural cockers)

1. A rustic high shoe; half-boot.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English cokeren (“to pamper, coddle”); compare Welsh cocru (“to indulge, fondle”), French coqueliner (“to dandle, to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls”), and English cockle and cock (“rooster; to spoil”).

Noun

cocker (plural cockers)

1. (Britain, informal) Friend, mate.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

• old cocker

Verb

cocker (third-person singular simple present cockers, present participle cockering, simple past and past participle cockered)

1. To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).

Synonyms

• cosset, pamper, posset; see also Thesaurus:pamper

Derived terms

• cocker up

References

Anagrams

• recock

French

Etymology

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.kœ?/, /k?.k??/

Noun

cocker m (plural cockers)

1. cocker spaniel

Further reading

• “cocker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English cocker

Noun

cocker m (invariable)

1. cocker spaniel

English

Etymology

clock +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

clocker (plural clockers)

1. A person who clocks (illegally winds back the milometer of) a motor car
2. (slang) A low-level drug dealer who operates on the streets.
3. (Scotland, dated) A clucking hen.

Anagrams

• cockler, reclock