Cocker

See also: cocker

English

Etymology

• As an English surname, from the verb cock (“to fight, wrangle”), itself from the bird. The river in Lancashire is also from the bird.
• Also as an English surname, from the noun cock (sense 3) (“heap of hay”).
• As a German surname, Americanized from Kocher.
• The river in Cumbria is of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *kukrā (“the crooked one”).

Proper noun

Cocker

1. A surname.
2. A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
3. A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cocker”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 349.
• Whaley, Diana (2006). A dictionary of Lake District place-names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society. pp. lx, 423 p.76.

Anagrams

• recock