Word of the Day: NESTCOCK

also NESCOCK, NESCOOK (Eng. dial.)

ETYMOLOGY
from nest + cock

EXAMPLE
“… As for Rafe – despite his love for the theater and his determination to travel the Circuit, he was essentially a homebody, a confirmed nestcock eagerly anticipating marriage to Crisiant and a settled home with a dozen rambunctious children. …”

From: Touchstone
By Melanie Rawn, 2012

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