cockerel

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English kokerel, equivalent to cock +‎ -rel.

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Noun

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cockerel (plural cockerels)

  1. A young male chicken.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm [], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.
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