Sekirov Dictionary

cockhorse

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
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(figurative) Lofty in feeling; exultant, proud, upstart.
- [Y]et I needs must see / Our painted fooles and cockehorse pessantry, / Still still vsurpe, with long liues, loues and lust, / The feats of vertue; […] — 1598

noun1

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(no longer used) A child's rocking horse.
- Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. — 1744

forms

cockhorses · more cockhorse · most cockhorse

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