formerly held in
  the Middle Temple on Childermas Day, where he had
  his officers, a marshal, constable, butler, &c.  See DUGDALE’S
  ORIGINES JURIDICIALES, p. 247.—­Ray says, the interpretation 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.  Whatever may be the origin of this appellation, we
  learn from the following verses, attributed to Hugh Bigot, Earl
  of Norfolk, that it was in use. in the time of king Henry ii.

  Was I in my castle at Bungay,
  Fast by the river Waveney,
  I would not care for the king of Cockney;

  i.e. the king of London.

COCKSHUT time.  The evening, when fowls go to roost.

Cod.  A cod of money:  a good sum of money.

CODDERS.  Persons employed by the gardeners to gather
  peas.

Codger.  An old codger:  an old fellow.

Cod piece.  The fore flap of a man’s breeches.  Do they
  bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?—­a jocular
  attack on a patient angler by watermen, &c.

Cods.  The scrotum.  Also a nick name for a curate:  a rude
  fellow meeting a curate, mistook him for the rector, and
  accosted him with the vulgar appellation of Bol—­ks the
  rector, No, Sir, answered he; only Cods the curate, at
  your service.

COD’S head.  A stupid fellow.

Coffee house.  A necessary house.  To make a coffee-house
  of a woman’s ****; to go in and out and spend
  nothing.

Cog.  The money, or whatsoever the sweeteners drop to
  draw in a bubble.

Cog.  A tooth.  A queer cog; a rotten tooth.  How the
  cull flashes his queer cogs; how the fool shews his rotten
  teeth.

To cog.  To cheat with dice; also to coax or wheedle, To
  cog a die; to conceal or secure a die.  To cog a dinner;
  to wheedle one out of a dinner.

COGUE.  A dram of any spirituous liquor.

Coker.  A lie.

Cokes.  The fool in the play of Bartholomew Fair:  perhaps
  a contraction of the word coxcomb.

Colcannon.  Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a
  mortar, and then stewed with butter:  an Irish dish.

Cold.  You will catch cold at that; a vulgar threat or
  advice to desist from an attempt.  He caught cold by
  lying in bed barefoot; a saying of any one extremely tender
  or careful of himself.