Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game in which one boy jumps on the back of another, crying “high-cockalorum.”
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Examples
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Like so many of his fellows -- cultured moderns, alien to the larger forms of patriotism, that rich liquor brewed of maps and figures, commercial profit, and high-cockalorum, which served so perfectly to swell smaller heads -- Felix had a love of his native land resembling love for a woman,
The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900
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And he put on such high-cockalorum airs that I, bein 'as soft as mush around the heart, jest wilted and agreed to give him everything he bargained for if he would promise not to hinder.
A Chosen Few Short Stories Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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"In Shakespeare's day he might have sputtered out some high-cockalorum nonsense of that sort, because in those days they ordered ham and eggs in blank verse and discharged the cook with an epic.
Waifs and Strays Part 1 O. Henry 1886
hernesheir commented on the word high-cockalorum
Its a game, and there's not much to it.
March 9, 2013
alexz commented on the word high-cockalorum
Wikipedia shows this as a team sport.
Reminds me of the 'Chicken Fights' where 2 people are carried about piggybacked on someone else's shoulders, and the objective is to joust the other guy off of the person he's piggybacking - that was the Elementary School version of Jousting.
March 9, 2013