Dog crossbreed major registry as purebred breeds. However, as of 2006, the portmanteau words cockapoo and Labradoodle are found in some dictionaries. Fanciful label names such as these are often found in for-sale ads, or on the websites that allow sellers to make up their own names for litters of crossbred puppies. The terms are only loosely descriptive and are seldom consistent. Among the trendier crossbreed dog are Labradoodles and Cockapoos, which each have their own fancier associations and affinity groups. Poodle and pug crossbreeds are also popular. In 2012, a new designer cross emerged called the Pomsky, which is a cross
Low Cocklaw Low Cocklaw Low Cocklaw is a small hamlet about west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. Until the early 1980s it was a working farm but is now entirely residential. It is surrounded by rolling farmland which is dominated by cereal growing. Allen Mawer rather tentatively identified the early place-name Creklawe~Crokelawe attested in 1296 with Cocklaw. If so, the initial "cr"- points to a Cumbric origin: Cumbric "crug" 'hill', to which was later added Old English "hlǣw" 'hill'. But if this identification is incorrect, "Cocklaw" on its own would more obviously be an entirely Old English word, combining "cocc" 'cock' and "hlǣw" 'hill'.