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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(UK, dialectal) The last-hatched chick of a brood, the weakling of a brood..
Indeed, my mother was wont to call me your Nestle-cock, and I love you as well as she did.
I meet with a double sense of this word Cockney: some taking it for, 1. One coaks'd or cocker'd (made a wanton or nestlecock of, delicately bred and brought up), so that when grown men or women they can endure no hardship, nor comport with pains-taking. 2. One utterly ignorant of husbandry or housewifery […]
You ignorant incompetent whey-faced nestlecock.
Use nestle-cock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nestle-cock means (UK, dialectal) The last-hatched chick of a brood, the weakling of a brood..
Common synonyms include nestlebub, runt, milksop, sissy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Indeed, my mother was wont to call me your Nestle-cock, and I love you as well as she did.
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