different between rocker vs cocker

English

Etymology

From Middle English rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Noun

rocker (plural rockers)

1. A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
2. A rocking chair.
3. (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)

   All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones [1]

4. The breve below as in ?.
5. Someone passionate about rock music.
6. A musician who plays rock music.
7. (informal) A rock music song.
   • September 2010, Pitchfork Media, The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s [2]

     "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]

8. One who rocks something.
   • 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times

     It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honour, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy.

9. (Britain) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
10. Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
11. A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
12. A rocking horse.
13. A rocker board.
14. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
15. A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
16. (engineering) A rock shaft.
17. (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
    • 2000, Mark Collantes, The Academy (page 66)

      Cadet Sergeant First Class: 3 Chevrons and 2 rockers. Cadet Master Sergeant: 3 Chevrons and 3 rockers. Cadet First Sergeant: 3 Chevrons, 3 rockers with a diamond inset.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Corker, Croker, corker, croker, re-rock, recork, rerock

Danish

Noun

rocker c (singular definite rockeren, plural indefinite rockere)

1. An outlaw biker

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English rocker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: roc?ker
• Rhymes: -?k?r

Noun

rocker m (plural rockers, diminutive rockertje n)

1. A rocker (rock musician or rock fan).
2. A rocker (rock song).

Related terms

• rockster

French

Etymology

rock +? -er

Verb

rocker

1. to rock (play or enjoy rock music)

Conjugation

Related terms

• rock
• rockeur m / rockeuse f

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From English rocker.

Noun

rocker m (plural rockeres)

1. (rare) rocker (rock musician)

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