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nestle-cock

noun

Etymology

From nestle + cock (“bird”). Compare nest-cock & nest-cockle.

  1. derived from *gew-✻ — “to bend, curve, arch”
  2. inherited from *kukkaz✻ — “mass, bulge, swelling”
  3. inherited from *kokk✻
  4. inherited from *cocc✻ — “heap, pile”
  5. inherited from cokke
  6. compounded as nestle-cock — “nestle + cock”

Definitions

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

  2. A mama's boy, a delicate child

    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.
    • You ignorant incompetent whey-faced nestlecock.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA