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cockshy

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Definitions

  1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.

Word origin

From cock + shy; so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

Used in a sentence

  • He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or ‘cockshy’ […]

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