Definition of Cockups

1. Noun. (plural of cockup) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cockups

1. cockup [n] - See also: cockup

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockups

cocktail table
cocktailed
cocktaileries
cocktailery
cocktailian
cocktailians
cocktailing
cocktails
cockteased
cockteasers
cockteases
cockteasing
cockup
cockups (current term)
cockweed
cocky
cocky's joy
cocky-leeky
coclique
coclustering
coco
coco-de-mer
coco de macao
coco palm
coco plum
coco plum tree
cocoa
cocoa bean

Literary usage of Cockups

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1818)
"I remember about thirty years ago, when cockups were in fashion, sonic of them halt—yard high, set with wires, a solid serious Christian gentlewoman told me ..."

2. A History of the House of Douglas from the Earliest Times Down to the by Herbert Maxwell (1902)
"If Lag happened to be absent, she would say, ' My cockups'll no gae on the ... cockups was a sort of high cap which at one period gave much offence to the ..."

3. Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford (1888)
"If Lag chanced to be absent, she would say, ' My cockups'll no gae on the day,' and ... NB—cockups was a sort of high cap which at one period gave much ..."

4. Six Saints of the Covenant: Peden: Semple: Welwood: Cameron: Cargill: Smith by Patrick Walker (1901)
"Some years ago also our women deformed their heads with cockups; and now they deform ... I remember about thirty years ago, when cockups were in fashion, ..."

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