cockcrow
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English cok crowe (also as cokkes crowe), equivalent to cock + crow. Likely a suppletive variation of Old English hancrǣd (“cockcrow, dawn”, literally “cock-crowing”), from hana (“cock, rooster”) + crǣd (“crowing”).
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Noun[edit]
cockcrow (countable and uncountable, plural cockcrows)
- The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 175:
- I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.
Synonyms[edit]
- break of day, sunup, sparrow-fart; see also Thesaurus:dawn
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dawn
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