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English
Etymology 1
From cockle + -ing.
Verb
cockling
- present participle and gerund of cockle
Etymology 2
From cock + -ling.
Noun
cockling (plural cocklings)
- A young, small, or immature cock.
1725, Sir Philip Sidney, The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney:These cocklings cocker'd we bewail too late, When that we see our off-spring gaily bent, Women manwood, and men effeminate.
1858, The Knickerbocker: or, New-York monthly magazine, volume 54, page 521:Take warning in time, cocklings; look sharp — but not in this direction, if you please.'
1920, The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, volume 44, page 74:'That ere our pretty Cocklings learn to crow, To pamper Lust they must to Market go?
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