cock one's toes
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cock pimp
The supposed husband of a bawd.
cock robin
A soft, easy fellow.
cock snot
semen
cock sock
A garment designed to cover the penis, either as a novelty item or for the purpose of modesty.
cock sure
As sure as a cock: meaning either "with all the assurance (brazen-faced impudence) of a 'game-cock," or "as sure as the
cock your eye
Shut one eye: thus translated into apothecaries Latin.--Gallus tuus ego.
cock-a-hoop
In high spirits. Possibly the idea is from the fact that, if a cock wins a fight, he will mount on anything near, and crow lustily and jubilantly. It is noticeable that under these circumstances a cock always gets off the ground-level if he can.
cock-a-wax
An amplification of the simple term COCK, sometimes "Lad of WAX," originally applied to a cobbler, but now general.
cock-a-whoop
Elevated, in high-spirits, transported with joy.
cock-and-bull story
An implausible or fanciful tale
cock-and-hen-club
A free and easy gathering, or "sing-song," where females are admitted as well as males.
cock-and-pinch
The old-fashioned beaver hat, affected by "swells" and "sporting gents" forty years ago—COCKED back and front, and PINCHED up at the sides.
cock-eye
A term of opprobrium often applied to one that squints.
Cock-pit of Europe
Belgium is so called because it has been the site of more European battles than any other country; among them, Oudenarde (1708); Ramillies (1706); Fontenoy (1745); Fleurus (1794); Jemmapes (1792); Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo (1815); Mons, Ypres and the continuous battles of the World War I; the invasion of the country by the Germans, 1940-45.
cock-sure
Certain: a metaphor borrowed front the cock of a firelock, as being much more certain to fire than the match.
cock-up
A mistake.
cockalorum
Or COCKYLORUM, amplification of cock or cocky.
cockbiting
Despicable.
cocked hat
A hat with the brim turned, like that of a bishop, dean, etc. It is also applied to the chapeau bras (q v.) and the military full-dress hat, pointed before and behind, and rising to a point at the crown, the chapeau a conies. "Cock" in this phrase means to turn; cocked, turned up.
cocked-hat-club
The principal clique amongst the members of the Society of Antiquaries, who virtually decide whether any person proposed shall be admitted or not. The term comes from the "cocked-hat" placed before the president at the sittings. There was another cocked-hat club in London not many years back, which had nothing peculiar about it beyond the fact that every member wore during club sittings, a "fore-and-aft" cocked-hat. Otherwise the proceedings were of the most ordinary kind.
cocked-hat-shaped
Shapeless: Anything which has been altered beyond recognition, or any man who has been put completely hors de combat, is said to have been knocked into a COCKED-HAT.
cocker
One fond of the diversion of cock-fighting.
cockhead
The glans penis.
cockish
Wanton, forward. A cockish wench; a forward coming girl.
cockle hat
A pilgrim's hat, especially the hat of a pilgrim to the shrine of St. James of Compostella, in Spam; his symbol was really a scallop-shell, but the word cockle was more usually applied to it.
cockles
To cry cockles; to be hanged: perhaps from the noise made whilst strangling. CANT.--This will rejoice the cockles of one's heart; a saying in praise of wine, ale, or spirituous liquors.
cockles
"to rejoice the COCKLES of one’s heart," a vulgar phrase implying great pleasure. Also, to "warm one’s COCKLES," said of any hot, well-spiced drink, taken in cold weather. COCKLES altogether seem to be an imaginary portion—of great importance—in the internal economy of the human frame.
cocks
Fictitious narratives, in verse or prose, of murders, fires, and terrible accidents, sold in the streets as true accounts. The man who hawks them, a patterer, often changes the scene of the awful event to suit the taste of the neighbourhood he is trying to delude. Possibly a corruption of cook, a cooked statement, or maybe "the story of a cock and a bull" may have had something to do with the term.
cockshut time
The evening, when fowls go to roost.
cockshy
A game at fairs and races, where trinkets are set upon sticks, and for one penny three throws at them are accorded, the thrower keeping whatever he knocks off. From the ancient game of throwing or "shying" at live cocks. Any prominent person abused in the newspapers is said to be a common COCKSHY.
cocksicle
A cold or frozen penis.
cocksuckery
fellatio
cocksucking
Fellatio.
cocoa-nut
The head. A pugilistic term. Also, when anything is explained to a man for the first time, it is not unusual for him to say, "Ah, that accounts for the milk in the cocoa-nut"—a remark which has its origin in a clever but not very moral story.
cocum
Shrewdness, ability, luck; "Jack’s got COCUM, he’s safe to get on, he is,"—viz., he starts under favourable circumstances; "to fight COCUM" is to be wily and cautious. Allied perhaps to the Scottish KEEK, German, GUCKEN, to peep or pry into.
cod
A cod of money: a good sum of money.
cod
To hoax, to take a "rise" out of one. Used as a noun, a fool.
cod piece
The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?--a jocular attack on a patient angler by watermen, &c.
coddam
A public-house game, much affected by medical students and cabmen, generally three on each side. The game is "simplicity itself," but requires a great amount of low cunning and peculiar mental ingenuity. It consists in guessing in which of the six hands displayed on the table, a small piece of marked money lies hid. If the guesser "brings it home," his side takes the "piece," and the centre man "works" it. If the guess is wrong, a chalk is taken to the holders, who again secrete the coin.
codders
Persons employed by the gardeners to gather peas.
codds
The "poor brethren" of the Charter House. In The Newcomes, Thackeray writes, "The Cistercian lads call these old gentlemen CODDS; I know not wherefore." A probable abbreviation of CODGER.
codger
An old codger: an old fellow.
codger
Or COGER, an old man; "a rum old CODGER," a curious old fellow. CODGER is sometimes used as synonymous with CADGER, and then signifies a person who gets his living in a questionable manner. "COGERS," the name of a debating society, formerly held in Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, and still in existence. The term is probably a corruption of COGITATORS.
cods
The scrotum. Also a nick name for a curate: a rude fellow meeting a curate, mistook him for the rector, and accosted him with the vulgar appellation of Bol--ks the rector, No, Sir, answered he; only Cods the curate, at your service.
coffee and doughnuts
a typical combination of food and drink
Coffee and love taste best when hot (Ethiopian proverb)
Traditional English proverbial phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
coffee house
A necessary house. To make a coffee-house of a woman's ****; to go in and out and spend nothing.
coffee money
a small amount of money given to someone for services
coffee talk
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
coffee-shop
A watercloset, or house of office.
cog
The money, or whatsoever the sweeteners drop to draw in a bubble.
cog
To cheat at dice.—Shakspeare. Also, to agree with, as one cog-wheel does with another, to crib from another’s book, as schoolboys often do. This is called "cogging over."
cogged
Loaded like false dice. Any one who has been hocussed or cheated is sometimes said to have been COGGED.
cogue
A dram of any spirituous liquor.
cohog
A co-ed.
coil up
to curl up tightly, often in a resting or defensive position
coin
"to post the COIN"—sometimes "post the coal"—a sporting phrase meaning to make a deposit of money for a match of any kind.
coin purse
Testicles.
coin slot
Vagina.
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