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Meaning of mould cocklebread | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

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

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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