cocker up

verb

cocker up

verb

1

To indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).

‘I think,’ said the irritated Blanford, ‘that we are all behaving like a gaggle of maiden aunts and the result will simply cocker up the girl's ego – already too swollen, in my humble opinion!’1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1115:

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