cockshy means A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
noun
- A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.
- An object at which stones are flung; (by extension) a person who is abused or vilified.“He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or ‘cockshy’ […]”
verb
- To pelt; to throw things at.