Cocker

== English == === Etymology === As an English surname, from the verb cock (“to fight, wrangle”), itself from the bird. The river in Lancashire is also from the bird. Also as an English surname, from the noun cock (sense 3) (“heap of hay”). As a German surname, Americanized from Kocher. The river in Cumbria is of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *kukrā (“the crooked one”). === Proper noun === Cocker A surname. A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth. A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary. === Further reading === Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cocker”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 349. Whaley, Diana (2006). A dictionary of Lake District place-names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society. pp. lx, 423 p.76. === Anagrams === recock