cock
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (US) enPR: käk, kôk, IPA: /kɑk/, /kɔːk/, X-SAMPA: /kAk/, /kO:k/
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Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: caulk (some pronunciations)
- (UK) IPA: /kɒk/, X-SAMPA: /kQk/
- Rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin.
Noun [edit]
cock (plural cocks)
- A male bird, especially a domestic fowl.
- Male chicken or other gallinaceous bird.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 181
- 1991, Dennis Cooper, Frisk
- 2001, Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger
- (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- (UK, New Zealand, pejorative, slang) A stupid person.
- (informal, UK, Tasmania) An informal term of address.
- All right, cock?
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat
- (informal) shuttlecock
Synonyms [edit]
- (male bird): cockbird
- (male chicken): rooster
- (valve): stopcock
- (penis): see Wikisaurus:penis
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Verb [edit]
cock (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked)
- (transitive) To lift the cock of a firearm; to prepare (a gun) to be fired.
- (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered.
- In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
- (transitive) To erect, notably lift or tilt (headwear) boastfully
- (UK, transitive, slang) To copulate with.
- (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side.
- He cocked his hat jauntily.
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Interjection [edit]
cock
- (slang) Expression of annoyance.
- 2006, "Vamp", oh cock i should have kept with a toyota! (on newsgroup uk.rec.cars.modifications)
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From Middle English cock, cok, from Old English -cocc (attested in place names), from Old Norse kǫkkr (“lump”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *geugh- (“swelling”). Cognate with Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).
Noun [edit]
cock (plural cocks)
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Verb [edit]
cock (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked)
- (transitive) To form into piles.
- Spenser
- Under the cocked hay.
- Spenser
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Etymology 3 [edit]
from Old French coque (“a type of small boat”), from child-talk coco 'egg'
Noun [edit]
cock (plural cocks)
Etymology 4 [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
cock
- (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
- Shakespeare
- By cock and pie.
- Shakespeare
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- Webster 1913
- en:Poultry