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cockshy

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COCKSHY

COCKSHY Cock "shy `, n.

1. 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.

2. An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy of him, " replied the hideous small boy. Dickens.

New American Oxford Dictionary

cockshy

cock shy |ˈkäkˌSHī ˈkɑkˌʃaɪ | ▶noun ( pl. cockshies ) Brit. dated a target for throwing sticks or stones at as a game. • an act of throwing something at such a target. • an object of ridicule or criticism. ORIGIN from the original use of a cockerel, or a replica of a cockerel, as a target.

Oxford Dictionary

cockshy

cockshy |ˈkɒkʃʌɪ | ▶noun ( pl. cockshies ) Brit. dated a target for throwing sticks or stones at as a game. • an act of throwing something at a cockshy. • an object of ridicule or criticism. ORIGIN from the original use of a replica of a cockerel as a target.