cockling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cockle

plural cocklings

1. A young, small, or immature cock.

   'That ere our pretty Cocklings learn to crow, To pamper Lust they must to Market go?

   1920, The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, volume 44, page 74

   2 more examples

   These cocklings cocker'd we bewail too late, When that we see our off-spring gaily bent, Women manwood, and men effeminate.

   1725, Sir Philip Sidney, The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney

   Take warning in time, cocklings; look sharp — but not in this direction, if you please.'

   1858, The Knickerbocker: or, New-York monthly magazine, volume 54, page 521