cockie
/ˈkɒki/noun Australian informal
A cockroach: the contractors had already sprayed for cockies and fleas...
- Cockies are common and reside even in the best of homes.
- To see some of Queensland's finest cockies, plan to attend the Cockroach Races held annually at the hotel on Australia Day.
- We don't use pesticides, and I'm very proud of any insect I find in the garden or house (except for the inevitable cockies!).
Origin
1980s: abbreviation.
- Homer sometimes nods
- home rule
- home-ruled
- Home Ruler
- Home-Ruling
- home run
- Homer, Winslow
- homeschool
- homeschooler
- homeschooling
- home science
- home screen
- Home Secretary
- Home Secretaryship
- Home Service
- home shopper
- home shopping
- homeshoring
- homesick
- homesickness
- home side
- home signal
- homesite
- home-sitter
- home-sitting