Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to have sexual intercourse; thus cocking, sexual intercourse; cock in one’s eye, amorous.

1611		Davies of Hereford Scourge of Folly 17/2: I maruell then Sardinius is so old When he is cocking still with euery trull.
1628		R. Hayman (trans.) of Owen Epigrams 162: I thought to haue cockt away my maiden-head, In naked truth, I did a Capon wed.
1768		Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 43: And if in Cocking you delight, / You ne’er can want employment.
1790		‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow [as 1768] .
1837		‘Toasts’ Ri-tum Ti-tum Songster 48: The patent trigger which the ladies love to cock.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) II 277: A woman cocking is never at a loss for a lie.
1970		B. Naughton Alfie Darling 31: If a man’s cocking a woman regular she can’t give him enough to eat. [Ibid.] 147: She’s definitely determined to have me cock her.
1999		J. Ridley Love Is a Racket 385: You don’t cock me without a glove.
2002		‘Bootscooter’ August Moone 9:28 🌐 ‘Don’t want to say she’s a slut but she’s been cocked more times than John Wayne’s shotgun’.

2. to get an erection, thus cocked, erect; half-cock adj., semi-erect.

1680		‘You’ll Never Get Her Up’ [ballad] With that his match he bravely cock’d Presented and gave Fire.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 324: The Trooper has a Carbine, Sir, That will please the Maidens well ... when it is Cock’d and Prim’d.
1764		E. Chicken Collier’s Wedding 32: Young Tommy cock’d, and Jenny spread, So here I leave them both in Bed.
c.1770		Joaks upon Joaks 19: Quoth the King, So Nell [Gwynn], why do you not make hay? To which she replied, If your Majesty and your Nobles will cock as much as you can, I will spread for you all.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) XI 2302: I was so lewed that my tool was on half cock.
1898		‘Mary Suckit’ Yvonne 34: That little Yvonne is a charming girl. How quickly I cock for her!