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語源

cock +‎ shy; so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

名詞

cockshy (複数形 cockshies)

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.
   • 1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, Ch 3:

     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’ …

   • 1870, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

     'What are you doing to the man?' demands Jasper, stepping out into the moonlight from the shade.
     'Making a cock-shy of him,' replies the hideous small boy.

動詞

cockshy (三人称単数 現在形 cockshies, 現在分詞 cockshying, 過去形および過去分詞形 cockshied)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To pelt; to throw things at.