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cockalorum
cockaˈlorum colloq. [A derivative of cock, app. playful and arbitrary. Cf., however, Du. kockeloeren to crow (Hexham).] 1. Applied to a person: = Little or young cock, bantam; self-important little man.c 1715 Jacobite Minstrelsy (1829) 47 Hey for Sandy Don! Hey for Cockolorum! Hey for Bobbing John, ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Cucoloris
Another possibility is an origin in the german word "Kokolores", which can mean "nonsense" or "boasting", like the English word "Cockalorum". wikipedia.org
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high cockalorum
high cockalorum see cockalorum. Oxford English Dictionary
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hi-cockalorum
hi-coc(k)alorum, -olorum occas. sp. of high cockalorum: see cockalorum 1 and 3. Oxford English Dictionary
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Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon
He is mentioned in the Jacobite riddling song Cam Ye o'er frae France, referred to as "Cockalorum", an epithet derived from the traditional nickname of wikipedia.org
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hi-cocalorum
@@@LINK=hi-cockalorum Oxford English Dictionary
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David John Chambers
Cock-a-hoop: a sequel to Chanticleer, Pertelote and Cockalorum, being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, September 1949–December 1961. wikipedia.org
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Golden Cockerel Press
Further reading The Press produced three volumes of bibliography – Chanticleer (1936), Pertelote (1943) and Cockalorum 1943–49 (1950), and a fourth and wikipedia.org
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cock-a-loft
cock-a-loft, a. colloq. [Formed by vague association with cock v.1, and such compounds as cockalorum, cock-a-hoop, cock-horse, cock-loft.] Affectedly lofty, stuck up.1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. xii. (1862) 212 Some rubbishing cock-aloft notion of ‘doing right’! Oxford English Dictionary
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Buck buck
In the United Kingdom, the game is sometimes called High Cockalorum, but has a large number of different names in various local dialects. wikipedia.org
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mopstick
mopstick (ˈmɒpstɪk) [f. mop n.3 + stick.] 1. a. The handle of a mop.1710 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 16 Dec., Hang it [a picture] carefully in some part of your room, where chairs and candles and mop-sticks won't spoil it. 1818 Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. 31 Our candidate is vastly like a m... Oxford English Dictionary
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