A word for Sally

[feng_shui_house]

While randomly googling I came across this:

"One possible origin of the word Cockney is a young person coaxed or conquered, made wanton; or a nestle cock, delicately bred and brought up, so as, when arrived a man's estate, to be unable to bear the least hardship."

I think the word 'nestlecock' for a spoilt guy is PERFECT. Now I have to think how to work it into everyday conversation.

Comments

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

A perfect find!!!!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

It makes me giggle. :^)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Me too!!!!(of course):-)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Considering where Cockney's are to be found, somehow I don't think this is the origin. Unless of course it's the sort of ironic appellation that means the opposite of what the person actually is.

Nestle cock sounds decidedly slashy!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Quite often word origin stories are made up to suit an imagined resemblance.

In this case, it might possibly be true-*ish*.

According to Wikipedia (the home of much that is not to be relied upon) it evolved from 'coken derived from cock's egg, meaning a misshapen egg' to 'cokenay' meaning a child delicately brought up/an effeminate fellow, a milksop, which was later used by country people as a derogatory reference for city-dwellers in general. Still later an author in satire referred to a 'bowe-bell cockney', and then another author stretched it to 'Londoners & all within sound of Bow Bells mocked as Cockneys.

Nestle cock definitely sounds slashy!

[brotherskeeper1.livejournal.com]

Okay ... I'll think about this :)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

It's a fun word, it sounds naughty, but it's really not.