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cock

Pronunciation: /kɒk/

The English word “cock” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
  2. A cock pigeon.
  3. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
  4. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
  5. A penis.
  6. The circle at the end of the rink.
  7. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
  8. A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
  9. Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
  10. An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.
  11. A man; a fellow.
  12. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
  13. Shuttlecock.
  14. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
  15. A chief person; a leader or master.
  16. A leading thing.
  17. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
  18. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
  19. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
  20. The indicator of a balance.

Etymology

From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is…

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