mould cocklebread

present singular third person moulds cocklebread · participle present moulding cocklebread · participle past moulded cocklebread · past moulded cocklebread

1. obsoleteTo lift one's skirts, bend over, and knead the buttocks as if kneading bread.

   Up with my heels and down with my head, And this is the way to mould cocklebread.

   1993, Judy Grahn, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World

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   And then at home here, or wheresoever he comes, our father is so pensive ( what muddy spirit soe'er possesses him, would I could conjure't out) that he makes us even sick of his sadness, that were wont to see my gossip's cock to day, 'mould cocklebread, daunce clutterdepouch and hannykin booby, binde barrels, or do any thing before him, and he would laugh at us.

   1641, Richard Brome,, A Jovial Crew, page 122

   And playing at See-saw a-stroddle cross a Board with the Plow-men; and above all, thy dearly beloved Delight, moulding of Cockle-bread?

   1729, Thomas D'Urfey, The comical history of Don Quixote, pages 154–155