Meaning of mould cocklebread | Babel Free

Definitions

To lift one's skirts, bend over, and knead the buttocks as if kneading bread.

obsolete

Examples

“And then at home here, or wheresoever he comes, our father is so pensive ( what muddy spirit soe'er possesses him, would I could conjure't out) that he makes us even sick of his sadness, that were wont to see⟳ my gossip's cock to day, 'mould cocklebread, daunce clutterdepouch and hannykin booby, binde barrels, or do any thing before him, and he would laugh⟳ at us.”

“And playing at See-saw a-stroddle cross a Board⟳ with the Plow-men; and above all, thy dearly beloved Delight, moulding of Cockle-bread?”

“Up with my heels and down with my head, And this is the way to mould cocklebread.”

CEFR level