Talk:cockblock

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No trouble finding noun and verb senses. For example [1], or, in less polished prose, [2]. There are about 800 more hits to look through. Some are for a band of the same name. They can't count directly, but you have to wonder where they came up with the name ... -dmh 05:58, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Gender-bias[edit]

is it accurate to describe the cockblock as something that is done by a female?

i'm a boy, but as i mentioned in the requestions for deletion dicussions about the word cockblock, i once ran a cockblock on my sister. i told this guy she was starting to date that they should fuck so she would calm down; that she could use it. i spoke truthfully, but yet admittedly cockblockedly (which should prolly never be a word;). truthfully in that she prolly coulda used the sweet relief that only a good lay can afford, but cockblockedly in that i still attained the correct outcome for an older guinea brother: that whigga got none. right. indeed.. cockblock, boy, you 'bout to get stopped. -:)Ozzyslovechild 8 July 2005 04:09 (UTC)

i've since done some more informal discovery, and cockblock is definitely not gender specific with respect to the cockblocker, though the more common does appear to be females blocking males from using their cocks on females.
as was done in the verb section and in both sections example sentences, i think it would be advisable to make the definition gender-neutral (e.g. "A companion who deliberately or inadvertently prevents an aspiring male from having sex with their companion").
self: if not one's posted objection to the notion, then make the change next time you perchance upon.
-:)Ozzyslovechild
will-do/doing next, self. best regards. -Ozzyslovechild 04:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
There seems to be a gender bias in the definition, if cockblock doesn't just mean to block the cock, but could also mean to block a girl from getting the cock
By the way it sometimes appears as two words: cock block. Here is a hilarious cite for that, with a graphic video demonstration of it being performed:

http://www.fugly.com/videos/4962/Coitus_Interruptus.html

origins & Etemology[edit]

the definition currently makes not explanation of its origins. should it? could it? it's gotta be something about about either penes or game cocks, but how to discern? and, indeed, why? -:)Ozzyslovechild 8 July 2005 04:09 (UTC)


I created the term cockblock in 1984 at the Music Scene night club near Wurzburg, Germany. My buddy, Pope wanted to ask a German girl at the bar to dance but her boyfriend wouldn't leave. I told Pope to wait for me, stepped inbetween them to order a beer facing the boyfriend and said "Entschuldigan sie bitte", he turns away and Pope moves in to ask the girl to the dance floor, we called it the Cockblock.

After a while, everyone stationed in Schweinfurt was doing it and useing the term. When I left the Army in '88, everyone everywhere was saying it.

Ask anyone in A Company 1/30th Infantry (84-88) if it was Eddy E & Pope who started cockblock, they'll back me.

The term Cock Block began in the male gay community, as a term for one who steals another's one night stand.

Informal research[edit]

I've just run into my old friend who introduced me to this term and asked how far back he believes it goes as well as its use as noun vs. verb: 

hippietrail: i didn't want to be accused of cockblocking again
friend: ah, yes, the cardinal sin of men's sins.
hippietrail: a word you yourself taught me
friend: it's a good word, no?
hippietrail: word and concept actually
hippietrail: so what year do you think you first hear "cockblock" used, and was it more often a verb or a noun?
friend: hmm...
friend: to answer to your previous question i'd say the term cockblock was first introduced to me in private school.
friend: most certainly it was used in prep school.
friend: circa 90/91.
friend: cockblock was probably more heard used as a noun, as in you're acting like a cockblock, versus a it's common imperfect conjugation "-ing", as in he's cockblocking me again.
hippietrail: yeah i always remembered you using it as the verb "cockblocking"
friend: generally in circles that use the terms cockblock/cockblocking, the single person conjugation "cockblock" is not prefered.
...
hippietrail: thank you for your valuable lexicographical input (:

Discussion moved from rfd page[edit]

Protologism? Needs evidence of currency. Also needs cleaning up - are the verb defs really verbs, or just variations on the noun; are they just different ways that a "cockblock" can occur? — Paul G 09:03, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've heard it before, but only as a verb. Pretty sure it was via TV or movie and not through my ailing social life. Google has over two thousand hits for cockblocked, 3500 for cockblocking... —Muke Tever 23:22, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Protologism, protologism. Why does every damned word have to be a protologism? This one's useful. What I mean is keep it. Look at it: <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cockblock>. 2004-12-29T22:45Z 06:20, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Appearance in urbandictionary is suggestive, but it's not reason for including a word. A fair number of urbandictionary entries are either made up or too localized to be of interest here. Nonetheless, I agree that there's a bit of trigger-happiness afoot when it comes to entries that the plaintiff hasn't heard of and hasn't bothered to do even a quick search on. -dmh 04:26, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
To be clear, I ressurected this word and defined it based on the results of a trivially easy search. -dmh 05:25, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Deleted. No serious citations given. Eclecticology 06:20, 2005 Jun 18 (UTC)
    • See my comment in the poon hump entry (appropriately enough). The Amherst citation is not only serious, it's about as good as you could ask for, linguistically speaking. It shows the term in various contexts in extended passages. It also clearly presumes that the term is already familiar to the reader, not coined on the spot. Dismissing it as not "serious" because it happens to be a frank conversation about sex from the point of view of two (actual or notional) anonymous college students misses the point about as clearly as one could miss the point. -dmh 6 July 2005 18:19 (UTC)
  • I'm going to restore this article in a minute. Purely because I experienced it in use in a conversation with an American in Europe over 3 years ago. Therefore it can't be a protologism. I only experienced the word in the gerund form cockblocking — an act of which I was myself wrongly accused (-: A bit of googling has turned up this entry in "The Online Slang Dictionary", also dating back to 2002. The Gazette, newspaper of the University of Western Ontario published The fine art of the “cock block” last year. On Usenet I can find it first used in early 2001 — Hippietrail 07:18, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • i hear this word from white people who aren't near a lot of darker people sometimes.
  • 'cockblock' is a word to thousands at least, hundreds of thousands almost certainly. and probably at least a million if not 10 million people in the US would not stumble upon trying to place its meaning if it were used without explanation albeit in context.
  • i'd guess whoever was mentioning that cockblock's inclusion at urbandictionary.com didn't justify inclusion here was absolutely right. such doesn't and shouldn't, but that don't mean it don't belong here; just means it isn't absolute proof of worthiness. (btw, where have you been livin that you haven't heard this word?)
  • i'd also guess that if i hear a few different folks from a couple different economic and geographic origins using it in passing conversations with people not of their ilk and without doubt that they'd be understood then it might be a word already.
  • i ran a cockblock on a sister. i told this guy she was starting to date that they should fuck so she would calm down, that she could use it. i spoke truthfully, but yet admittedly cockblockedly (now that should prolly never be a word;). truthfully in that she prolly coulda used the sweet relief that only a good lay can afford, but cockblockedly in that i still attained the correct outcome for an older guinea brother: that whigga got none. right. indeed.. cockblock, boy, you 'bout to get stopped.
  • how much weight is afforded inclusion in oral history around this heah wiktionary? a quick p2p on 'cockblock quickly reveals much worth a hear. bargain music's cockblock is the first one that grabbed my ear, but there were a few others of note.
  • i'm pretty fuckin sure cockblock's a word of some sort at the very least. the distinction between True Word, neologism, protologism, and onandon is surely a worthwhile one, though. and should there not be a realm of wiktionary for words that the herd wishes weren't words, or wishes that the heard didn't have need for being words?
-Ozzyslovechild 6 July 2005 01:15 (UTC)

Redirect Wikipedia entry[edit]

Wikipedia has a frozen stub page, currently only editable by administrators. Is that because it is club jargon, related to more than one area of dating, clubbing, party-culture, or the seduction community? Players have been around for a very long time, centuries and milleniums around the world. Paisano means much more than your buddy. User:bwildasi Sun Apr 6 18:16:17 UTC 2008

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