different between cower vs coker

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ka??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka??/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cowre, couren, curen, from Middle Low German kûren (“to lie in wait; linger”) or from North Germanic (Icelandic kúra (“to doze”)). Cognate with German kauern (“to squat”), Dutch koeren (“to keep watch (in a cowered position)”), Serbo-Croatian kutriti (“to lie in a bent position”). Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.

Verb

cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)

1. (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.

   He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.

   • 1700, John Dryden, "The Cock and the Fox", in Fables, Ancient and Modern, published March 1700:

     Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:

     Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
     May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest

   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     The mother bird had mov’d not,
     But cowering o’er her nestlings,
     Sate confident and fearless,
     And watch’d the wonted guest.

3. (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.

Translations

See also

• coward
• cowardice

Etymology 2

Verb

cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.

Anagrams

• Crowe

English

Etymology 1

coke +? -er

Noun

coker (plural cokers)

1. The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured

Etymology 2

Shortening of cokernel

Noun

coker (plural cokers)

1. (category theory, informal) cokernel

Anagrams

• Croke, Korçë, Ocker, ocker

Indonesian

Etymology

From English choker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ok?r/
• Hyphenation: co?kêr

Noun

coker (first-person possessive cokerku, second-person possessive cokermu, third-person possessive cokernya)

1. choker.

Further reading

• “coker” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cuker, cokir, cocur, cokre, kokur, quequer, koker

Etymology

From Old English cocer, cocur, from Proto-Germanic *kukur-; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür or Hunnic. Doublet of quiver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?k?r/, /?k??k?r/

Noun

coker (plural cokeres)

1. A kind of leather leg coverings.
2. (rare) A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)

Descendants

• English: cocker, cogger

References

• “c??ker, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.