Definition of cockshy in English:
cockshy
nounPlural cockshiesˈkɒkʃʌɪˈkɑkˌʃaɪ
British dated 1A target for throwing sticks or stones at as a game.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘We will make a cockshy of you if you don't look out,’ said one; and another actually threw a stone at him.
- The senator set up a number of cockshies and knocked them down again.
- The gypsies hold a kind of informal fair on the village green with cockshies, swings, and all the clumsy games that extract money from clumsy hands.
- 1.1 An act of throwing something at a cockshy.
- 1.2 An object of ridicule or criticism.
Example sentencesExamples
- By way of providing a cockshy for the first meeting of the strategic planning group, the vision sketched out below has been prepared.
- He has written, in his own words, a ‘cockshy’ of a book, cockshy being an old British word with the meaning here of writing ‘something to shoot at.’
Origin
From the original use of a replica of a cockerel as a target.