cockshy

• Only done for a cockshy. —  Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel
• When it was a kitten some young Plymborough roughs had hurled it into the little river, and were making of it what they termed a "cockshy," pelting it with stones, fortunately ineffectually, and trying to beat it under water, when the Doctor's footman, who was crossing the bridge, saw what was going on and made an unexpected charge upon the young ruffians, effectually scattering them. —  Glyn Severn's Schooldays
• I thought so; not but what they would make capital cockshies A large pile of flints, hammered into a convenient size and form for missiles, lay handy, ready for repairing the road, and the coincidence caused Saurin's idea to become popular at once Let's have one for a cockshy. —  Dr. Jolliffe's Boys
• Alas! on one occasion Knighton was skilful enough to smash a chemist's blue bottle with an apple,--and on another I am aware that an oil lamp in Carthusian Street succumbed to my only too-true cockshy: "Et hoc meminisse dolendum Another incident was amusing in its way. —  My Life as an Author
• 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"--he had seen this very Ricketts arrayed in crimson and gold, with an immense bearskin cap on his head, staggering under the colours of the regiment. —  Boys and girls from Thackeray

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms