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Also the idiots who are counting cocus % and actual voting % need to do some homework.

Hillary And McCain Win California 2009

It is imported into this country under the name of cocus wood, and is used with us for making flutes and other wind instruments.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various

Here, they were crooked, comical little things of black cocus-wood; there, they were motley, speckled round bowls, like birds 'eggs, with white stems; but they cost too much.

The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

Non omnis aetas, Lyde, ludo convenit. magis unum in mentemst mihi nunc, satis ut commode 130 pro dignitate opsoni haec concuret cocus.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Martial's comment is inimitable: si tibi Mistyllos cocus, Aemiliane, vocatur, dicatur quare non Taratalla mihi?

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Magirus cocus dixit 'veni huc, eversor domi, solivertiator, fugitive porcelle, et hodie tibi dirimo vitam.'

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Magirus cocus dixit 'transi, puer affer mihi de cocina cultrum, ut hunc porcellum faciam cruentum.'

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

The ancients pronounced _coce_ and _quoque_ like _co-ke_, which alludes to the Latin _cocus_, cook, besides the ambiguity of _jure_, which applies to _broth_ or _law -- jus_.

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

The rage of marrying is very prevalent; so that there will be probably a great crop of cuckolds next winter, who are at present only 'cocus en herbs'.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

The rage of marrying is very prevalent; so that there will be probably a great crop of cuckolds next winter, who are at present only 'cocus en herbs'.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1759-65 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733