Cocker

v. t. [imp. & p. p. COCKERED; p. pr. & vb. n. COCKERING.] [Prov. Eng., to crow like a cock, to boast; hence, to be wanton and to make wanton. Cf. Cock, v. t. 3, and in Prov. Eng. to walk lightly or nimbly about, applied to a child. Cf. also Fr. coqueliner, to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls.] To treat with tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.

He that will give his son sugar-plums to make him learn, does but authorize his love of pleasure, and cocker up that propensity which he ought to subdue. Locke.

n. 1. One who follows cock-fighting.

2Sense 2. A kind of rustic high shoe or half-boot.

His cockers were of cordwain. Drayton.

3Sense 3. A dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks and other game from their haunts in woods and marshes. Ogilvie.