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.