† cokesn.
Obsolete.
A silly fellow, fool, ninny; a simpleton, one easily ‘taken in’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe
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woodcockc1430
geckc1530
cousinc1555
cokes1567
milch cow1582
gudgeon1584
coney1591
martin1591
gull1594
plover1599
rook1600
gull-finch1604
cheatee1615
goata1616
whirligig1624
chouse1649
coll1657
cully1664
bubble1668
lamb1668
Simple Simon?1673
mouth1680
dupe1681
cull1698
bub1699
game1699
muggins1705
colour1707
milk cow1727
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gulpin1802
slob1810
gaggee1819
sucker1838
hoaxee1840
softie1850
foozle1860
lemon1863
juggins1882
yob1886
patsy1889
yapc1894
fall guy1895
fruit1895
meemaw1895
easy mark1896
lobster1896
mark1896
wise guy1896
come-on1897
pushover1907
John1908
schnookle1908
Gretchen1913
jug1914
schnook1920
soft touch1924
prospect1931
steamer1932
punter1934
dill1941
Joe Soap1943
possum1945
Moreton Bay1953
easy touch1959
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fij Aristippus..the sharpe Diogenes deryded in his kinde: Thou art (qd. he) a common cokes.
1568 T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 151 He is a cokes, and worthy strokes, whose wife the Breeches beare.
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. ii. sig. Eiii He showeth himselfe herein..so very a coxe, The Cat was not so madly alured by the foxe.
a1606 J. Lyly Euphues (1636) sig. E5 I brought thee vp like a Cokes [1578–1587 cockney], and thou hast handled mee like a Cockscombe.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Guilmin, a noddie, ninnie, coxe, ideot.
a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkkkk4/2 Go, you're a brainlesse Coxe [v.r. coax], a Toy, a Fop.
1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iv. 63 A kinde of Cokes, which is as the learned terme, an Asse, a Puppy.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cokes, the Fool in the Play, or Bartholomew-Fair.
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