Meaning of cockshy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.
2. An object at which stones are flung; (by extension) a person who is abused or vilified.

Examples

“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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