mould cocklebread

English

Verb

mould cocklebread (third-person singular simple present moulds cocklebread, present participle moulding cocklebread, simple past and past participle moulded cocklebread)

1. (obsolete) To lift one's skirts, bend over, and knead the buttocks as if kneading bread.
   • 1641, Richard Brome,, A Jovial Crew, page 122:

     And then at home here, or wheresoever he comes, our father is so pensive ( what muddy spirit soe'er possesses him, would I could conjure't out) that he makes us even sick of his sadness, that were wont to see my gossip's cock to day, 'mould cocklebread, daunce clutterdepouch and hannykin booby, binde barrels, or do any thing before him, and he would laugh at us.

   • 1729, Thomas D'Urfey, The comical history of Don Quixote, pages 154–155:

     And playing at See-saw a-stroddle cross a Board with the Plow-men; and above all, thy dearly beloved Delight, moulding of Cockle-bread?

   • 1993, Judy Grahn, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World:

     Up with my heels and down with my head, And this is the way to mould cocklebread.