Defn: An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.
Dryden. Swift.
COCKMASTER
Cock"mas`ter, n.
Defn: One who breeds gamecocks. L'Estrange.
COCKMATCH
Cock"match`, n.
Defn: A cockfight.
COCKNEY Cock"ney, n.; pl. Cockneys. Etym: [OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. Newt), AS. æg. See 1st Cock, Egg, n.]
1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.
2. A native or resident of the city of London; — used contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.
COCKNEY
Cock"ney, a.
Defn: Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.