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† simper-de-cocket Obs.
Forms: (see the quots.).
[app. a fanciful formation on simper v.2 and cocket a.]
An affected coquettish air; a woman characterized by this; a flirt.
In quot. 1562 used as an adj. or adv.
αa1529Skelton E. Rummyng 55 She wyll iet..In her furred flocket, And gray russet rocket, With symper the cocket. 1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metam. Wks. (Rtldg.) 619/2 Lay by..using your nimbles, In diving the pockets, And sounding the sockets Of simper-the-cockets.
βa1530J. Heywood Weather 877 (Brandl), I saw you dally with your symper de cokket. 1562― Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 43 Vpright as a candle standth in a socket, Stoode she that daie, so simpre de cocket. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 238 Another sort of simper-de-cockets, who counterfet puppets, in speaking so finely that they wil scarce open their mouthes. 1611Cotgr., Coquine, a begger-woman; also, a cockney, simperde⁓cockit, nice thing. 1707tr. Wks. C'tess D'Anois (1715) 384, I have here in my Custody, said she, a little Simper de cockit that will not let me be at quiet. |