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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players..
He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or ‘cockshy’ […]
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Cockshy means A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players..
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He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or ‘cockshy’ […]
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