Cocker
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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
- A surname.
- A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
- 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.