"nestle-cock" meaning in English

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      "form": "nestcock",
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        "The last-hatched chick of a brood, the weakling of a brood."
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        "(UK, dialectal) The last-hatched chick of a brood, the weakling of a brood."
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "sense": "the weakling of a brood",
          "word": "nestlebub"
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          "sense": "the weakling of a brood",
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          "ref": "c. 1621, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Anything for a Quiet Life, act 4, scene 1:",
          "text": "Indeed, my mother was wont to call me your Nestle-cock, and I love you as well as she did.",
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          "ref": "1662, Thomas Fuller, “Worthies of London”, in The History of the Worthies of England, volume 2, London: Thomas Tegg, published 1840, page 342:",
          "text": "I meet with a double sense of this word Cockney: some taking it for, 1. One coaks'd or cocker'd (made a wanton or nestlecock of, delicately bred and brought up), so that when grown men or women they can endure no hardship, nor comport with pains-taking. 2. One utterly ignorant of husbandry or housewifery […]",
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          "ref": "1986, Patrick O'Brian, The Reverse of the Medal, page 161:",
          "text": "You ignorant incompetent whey-faced nestlecock.",
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        "A mama's boy, a delicate child; a spoiled brat."
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        "(UK, dialectal, by extension) A mama's boy, a delicate child; a spoiled brat."
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          "word": "milksop"
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