Adjective: cocket
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more cocket |
| Superlative | most cocket |
Sample Sentences
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Let her legs be small, but not us'd to sprawl, / Her tongue not too loud nor cocket; [1608, Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece, act 3, scene 1:]
Adjectives inflected like cocket
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From French coquet (“coquettish”). See: French Adjectives '
coquet'.