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Cockshy (A)

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A free fling or “shyat something. The allusion is to the once popular Shrove-Tuesday sport of shying or casting stones or sticks at cocks. This sport is now superseded by pigeon-shooting, which is thought to be more aristocratic! but can hardly be deemed more humane.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cocker
Cockie or Cocky
Cockle Hat
Cockle Shells
Cockles
Cockles of the Heart
Cockledemoy (A)
Cockney
Cockney School
Cockpit of Europe
Cockshy (A)
Cockswain
Cocktail
Cocqcigrues
Cocytus [Ko-kytus]
Codds
Codille
Codlin’s your Friend, not Short
Coehorns
Cœnobites or Cenobites
Cœur de Lion