Meanings
verbcocker up (third-person singular simple present cockers up, present participle cockering up, simple past and past participle cockered up)
present singular third person cockers up · participle present cockering up · participle past cockered up · past cockered up
- To indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).
‘I think,’ said the irritated Blanford, ‘that we are all behaving like a gaggle of maiden aunts and the result will simply cocker up the girl's ego – already too swollen, in my humble opinion!’
1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1115
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