The phrase "cock about" is often used informally in spoken English, but it is not considered grammatically correct for written English.
It is typically used to mean "to mess around" or "to waste time in a playful or silly manner." Example: "I can't believe we're just cocking about instead of studying for our exams."
And Bartlett's third play, Cock, about a gay man who falls in love with a woman, was, Cooke says, one of those rare plays that was word-perfect on submission.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has been a true cock about pot.
Which brings us back to cocking about.
Fell, less loftily, calls this process "the cutting edge of cocking about".
Batty and Cocking disagreed about when she gave detectives Anderson's address; Batty said it was 5 February, Cocking about 10 February.
"The cutting edge of cocking about – Top Gear, automobility and law" is an affectionate exploration of the show and its "combustion masculinity": how it locates male identity within technology, and how that human-machine relationship is changing as cars become less like untamed machines and more like semi-intelligent computers on wheels.
Downtown Los Angeles is cocked about 36 degrees from the north-south grid that was Thomas Jefferson's dream for filling in the empty places on the blank page of the continent.
My cock is about to explode yet again.
A turkey cock painted about 1612 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) is attributed to Manṣūr and marks that bird's first appearance in India.
"I don't know, I sound like a complete cock talking about it, don't I?" Colman's depiction of Hannah is so real, I wonder whether she's drawing on personal experience.
I've had slaps on the back, fist bumps, cheers and hugs while out and about, cock-eyed offers of political power from well intentioned chancers and some good ol' fashioned character assassinations in the papers.
