cosher

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Then, at the exact second that the ambulance is due, along comes their 'cosher,' knocks down the policeman on duty.

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  1. To feed with dainties or delicacies; coddle; hence, to treat kindly and fondly; fondle; pet. [Colloquial] Thus she coshered up Eleanor with cold fowl and port wine. Trollope, Barehester Towers, xxiii.
  2. To levy exactions upon; extort entertainment from. See coshering. A very fit and proper house, Sir, For such an idle guest to cosher. The Irish Hudibras (1689).
  3. See kosher.
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  • Then, at the exact second that the ambulance is due, along comes their 'cosher,' knocks down the policeman on duty. —  Jack O' Judgment
  • I STILL believed everything is cosher, even felt bad for probably making her assume we are taking the dog! —  Africantapestry
  • a dirge; _corrie_, Sc., a circular hollow in a hill-side; _cosher_, —  English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
  • Her sigh at the hopelessness of taking along this person untutored in the ways of sheep was rather exaggerated and punctuated with a swipe of the cosher, which she had appro­priated, and with which she dealt mortal blows (swish Sheep don't use paths. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
 

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  1. apparently a freq. form, from cosh, comfortable: see cosh and cozy.
  2. from Irish cosair, a feast, a banquet.
 

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