† coxcombessn.
Obsolete. rare.
A vain or pretentiously affected woman; a female coxcomb. Cf. coxcomb n. 4c.
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1827 C. Lamb Let. 4 Dec. (1935) III. 144 Would to the fifth heaven no coxcombess had invented Albums.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019).
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n.1827- to pull one's finger out
- to pull one's freight
- to pull one's head out of one's arse
- to pull one's head out of one's ass
- to pull one's plonker
- to pull one's pud
- to pull one's pudding
- to pull one's punches
- to pull one's rank
- to pull one's socks up
- to pull one's status
- to pull one's stripes
- to pull one's top
- to pull one's weight
- to pull one's wire
- to pull one'the etc
- to pull one'the pud
- to pull one'the pudding
- to pull one'the wire
- to pull oneself by one's bootstraps
- to pull oneself by one's own bootstraps
- to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
- to pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps
- to pull out
- to pull out all the stops