† simper-de-cocket Obs.
Forms: (see the quots.).
[app. a fanciful formation on simper v.2 and cocket a.]
An affected coquettish air; a woman characterized by this; a flirt.
In quot. 1562 used as an adj. or adv.
| α a 1529 Skelton E. Rummyng 55 She wyll iet..In her furred flocket, And gray russet rocket, With symper the cocket. 1621 B. Jonson Gipsies Metam. Wks. (Rtldg.) 619/2 Lay by..using your nimbles, In diving the pockets, And sounding the sockets Of simper-the-cockets. |
| β a 1530 J. Heywood Weather 877 (Brandl), I saw you dally with your symper de cokket. 1562 ― Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 43 Vpright as a candle standth in a socket, Stoode she that daie, so simpre de cocket. 1607 R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 238 Another sort of simper-de-cockets, who counterfet puppets, in speaking so finely that they wil scarce open their mouthes. 1611 Cotgr., Coquine, a begger-woman; also, a cockney, simperde⁓cockit, nice thing. 1707 tr. Wks. C'tess D'Anois (1715) 384, I have here in my Custody, said she, a little Simper de cockit that will not let me be at quiet. |