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Examples
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‘Hey, presto, cockolorum!’ cried the doctor, and, lo! on uncovering the shillings, they were all found congregated under one.
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"Here, hi! old cockolorum!" cried Bob, with his mouth full, as he turned to the Malay, "tell Mr Abdullah there, that his durians are 'licious -- luscious --' licious, but Mr Long likes mangosteens better."
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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Sometimes, indeed, they would all join in some regular indoor boys 'game like "baste the bear," or "high-cockolorum"; or they would have amusing "ghost-hunts," as they called them, after some dressed-up boy among the dark corridors and staircases.
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'Hey, presto, cockolorum!' cried the doctor, and, lo! on uncovering the shillings, they were all found congregated under one.
Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849
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'Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum,' said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841
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"Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum," said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.
Oliver Twist 1838
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'Hey, presto, cockolorum!' cried the doctor, and, lo! on uncovering the shillings, they were all found congregated under one.
Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821
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‘Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn’t, and high cockolorum,’ said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.
Oliver Twist 2007
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