"cockshy" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From cock + shy; so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks.",
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      "form": "cockshies",
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        "A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players."
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          "text": "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’ […]",
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          "ref": "1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, “’What are you doing to the man?’ demands Jasper, stepping out into the moonlight from the shade.\n’Making a ’’’cock-shy’’’ of him,’ replies the hideous small boy.”, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:",
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        "An object at which stones are flung; (by extension) a person who is abused or vilified."
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    {
      "form": "cockshying",
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      "form": "cockshied",
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        "To pelt; to throw things at."
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        "To pelt; to throw things at."
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