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Definition of Cockshy
1. n. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
Definition of Cockshy
1. Noun. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks. ¹
2. Noun. An object at which stones are flung. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cockshy
1. a target in a throwing contest [n -SHIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockshy
Literary usage of Cockshy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The slang dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"Any prominent person abused in the newspapers is said to be a common cockshy.
Cocksure, certain. Cocky, pert, saucy. Cocoa-nut, the head. A pugilistic term. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... had invited two rival theorists to settle the question of geological formation
by picking up the stones and appealing to the test of a cockshy. ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"... that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or "
cockshy "—he had seen this, very Ricketts arrayed in crimson and gold, ..."
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