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saucy, cheeky, brash: Since she won the beauty contest, Claire
has been entirely too cocky.
coddle v. pamper, baby, cosset, mollycoddle, indulge, humour, spoil,
Brit cocker: Give him a cold bath and don't coddle him so much.
code n. 1 law(s), regulation(s), rule(s), jurisprudence, jus
canonicum 'canon law', jus civile 'civil law', jus divinum
'divine law', jus gentium 'universal law', jus naturale 'natural
law', corpus juris, pandect, lex non scripta 'common law,
unwritten law', lex scripta 'statute law': In the present code
there is no statute that forbids keeping a pet gnu. 2 cipher or
cypher, cryptogram: Our agents send all their messages in code.
3 system, practice(s), convention(s), standard(s), criterion
(criteria), principle(s), rule(s), maxim(s), custom(s),
pattern(s), structure, tradition(s), organization, protocol,
orthodoxy: Our code of behaviour is completely foreign to the
islanders.
--v. 4 encode, encipher or encypher, encrypt: It took an hour
to code the information.
coffin n. casket, pall, (pine) box; sarcophagus: The coffin was
slowly lowered into the grave.
cog n. 1 tooth, gear-tooth, sprocket, ratchet: Stripping the gears
means breaking the cogs off them. 2 underling, pawn,
subordinate, nonentity, zero, cipher or cypher, nothing, nobody,
small fry: He's only a small cog in the organization - we're
after the big wheel himself.
cognizance
n. knowledge, awareness, knowledge, perception, notice,
consciousness, mindfulness: They ran the gambling den with the
full cognizance of the police.
coherent adj. 1 consistent, orderly, organized, well-organized, logical,
rational, reasonable, well-ordered: The MP set forth a coherent
argument against an excise tax. 2 understandable, sensible,
comprehensible, intelligible, articulate, lucid, clear: He was
so frightened and hysterical that he was unable to tell a
coherent story.