[abbreviation of COCKATOO.]

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  1.  Pet name for a cockatoo.

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1889.  Boys’ Own Paper, 7 Dec., 158/1. Cocky allowed every member of the family to scratch his dusty poll. Ibid., 14 Dec., 163/3. The cockatoo … saying … ‘Give poor old cockie a bit of bread!’

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  2.  Applied to a ‘Cockatoo farmer’ in Australia.

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1887.  Sala, in Illust. Lond. News, 12 March, 282/2.

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