| 单词 | Cocker |
| 释义 | Cocker, n.5
[The name of Edward Cocker (1631–75), arithmetician, reputed author of a popular Arithmetick.]
according to Cocker: by or in accordance with strict rule or calculation; exactly; strictly.
[1756A. Murphy Apprentice i. i. 14, I have Cocker's Arithmetick below Stairs... I'll..get it for him.] 1818C. Mathews Let. 27 July in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) III. 19 Three instead of one..according to Cocker—if one does good..how much will three do? 1825Mechanics' Mag. 11 June 149/2 A short Table,..which, I think, will be found to be according to ‘Cocker’. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xxxii, ‘So you ought to be, according to Cocker, spending all your time in sick rooms.’ ‘According to who?’ ‘According to Cocker.’ ‘Who is Cocker?’ ‘Oh, I don't know; some old fellow who wrote the rules of arithmetic, I believe; it's only a bit of slang.’ 1883G. A. Sala in Illustr. Lond. News 24 Nov. 499/2 The average American may not know what we mean by ‘according to Cocker’; while the average Englishman may be unaware of the meaning of ‘according to Gunter’. 1888G. Allen This Mortal Coil ii, According to Cocker, nought and nought make nothing. 1893E. F. Knight Where Three Empires Meet xxiv. 372 So, despite Cocker, at this short range..the guns opened fire on the fort. |
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