crocodile
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[edit] Etymology
From Old French cocodrille (modern crocodile), from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokodeilos). The word was later refashioned after the Latin and Greek forms.
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crocodile (plural crocodiles)
- Any of a variety of related predatory amphibious reptiles, related to the alligator.
- A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.
- 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 8
- Sometimes the kids from the slap-up boys' schools in Eastbourne used to be led round in crocodiles to hand out fags and peppermint creams to the 'wounded Tommies', as they called us.
- 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 8
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- croc (informal)
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Related terms
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reptile
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Old French cocodrille, from mediaeval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin cocodrilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokodeilos). The word was later refashioned after the Latin and Greek forms.
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crocodile m. (plural crocodiles)
