nestle-cock

The last-hatched chick of a brood, the weakling of a brood.

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 […]