cockshy
nounEtymology
Definitions
A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.
An object at which stones are flung
An object at which stones are flung; (by extension) a person who is abused or vilified.
- He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or ‘cockshy’ […]
To pelt
To pelt; to throw things at.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA