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“As the cock was the national emblem of France, it is hardly vulgar to quote here our homely proverb: "As the old cock crows the young one learns.”
Fifty Years Since: An Address Before the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina
“One day, I'm Mr. Twickem, from New Orleans; 'nother day, I'm just come from my plantation on Pearl river, where I works seven hundred niggers; then, again, I come out a distant relation of Henry Clay, or some old cock in Kentuck.”
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yarb 'Do you always smoke arter you goes to bed, old cock?' inquired Mr. Weller of his landlord, when they had both retired for the night.
- Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1840), ch. XLIII
I often would nominate a male acquaintance of mine thus while dwelling in the UK. Often with "my" prepended, e.g. "Will, me old cock, how are you?" Feb 21, 2009