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nestle-cock
noun 2
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1VERB + NESTLE-COCK
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noun
1
The last-hatched chick of a brood, the weakling of a brood.
2
A mama's boy, a delicate child; a spoiled brat.
Indeed, my mother was wont to call me your Nestle-cock, and I love you as well as she did.
I meet with a double sense of this word Cockney: some taking it for, 1. One coaks'd or cocker'd (made a wanton or nestlecock of, delicately bred and brought up), so that when grown men or women they can endure no hardship, nor comport with pains-taking. 2. One utterly ignorant of husbandry or housewifery […]
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Indeed, my mother was wont to call me your Nestle-cock, and I love you as well as she did.
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I meet with a double sense of this word Cockney: some taking it for, 1. One coaks'd or cocker'd (made a wanton or nestlecock of, delicately bred and brought up), so that when grown men or women they c
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You ignorant incompetent whey-faced nestlecock.
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