cocker

verb

ˈkä-kər How to pronounce cocker (audio)
Definition of cockernext
as in to spoil
to treat with great or excessive care overjoyed to be parents at last, they will likely cocker that child shamelessly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cocker
  1. spoil
  2. nurse
  3. baby
  4. mother
  5. pamper
  6. indulge
  7. coddle
  8. dandle
Verb
  • Dodge won't spoil the surprise by confirming if the last one will be based on the Charger or the Challenger (or maybe both), but the evidence suggests the latter is more likely.
    Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Farmers’ broiler chickens suffocate, and dairy products spoil.
    Monica Mark, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023
Definition of spoil
Verb
  • Bosa, as well as two other star players, left tackle Trent Williams (ankle) and tight end George Kittle (hamstring) are all listed as questionable to play and the reality is each may need to be nursed to a distant regular season finish line with nearly half the schedule left to play.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Tight end Isaiah Likely missed most of last week nursing a hamstring injury.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of nurse
Verb
  • The sensitive child of the bunch doesn’t need to be babied.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Plus, judging by Dustin May, Walker Buehler and many others, babying a pitcher doesn’t seem too effective.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
Definition of baby
Verb
  • She was born on June 10, to mother Jona, 25 and father Tony, 24, and has two siblings named Pork Stew and Sweet Pork, according to previous USA TODAY reporting.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
  • That divine feminine energy and the space to create and to mother a project.
    Reanna Cruz, Vulture, 25 June 2024
Definition of mother
Verb
  • The owner of the New York Giants in the late 1940s took the team for a week of pampering before the start of spring training.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In the beauty category, this face roller and gua sha set that’s packaged nicely makes a great gift for anyone who wants to pamper themselves at home.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of pamper
Verb
  • Heller’s screenplay adaptation of the 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder indulges the selfish antagonism that Millennial feminists take as their prerogative.
    Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
  • For now, most Syrians seem ready to indulge Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), whose forces swept through the country almost unopposed and seized the capital, Damascus, last weekend from Bashar al-Assad.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of indulge
Verb
  • The user is coddled by the machine, voluntarily infantilized.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Sleek rooms have padded vinyl floors that coddle bare feet, and the buzzy lobby level bar is all DJ sets and mixology.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of coddle
Verb
  • An hour later, Musk took X to New York and dandled him on his knee while being photographed for Time.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The day after the election, Taaz Robinson, a fellow third-year, posted a picture on Buckingham’s Facebook page of Donald Trump as an infant being dandled by Vladimir Putin.
    Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2017
Definition of dandle
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