cockfight
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑkˌfaɪt/
Noun
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cockfight (plural cockfights)
- A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
- Synonym: (archaic) cockmatch
- 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 278:
- This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the cock-fight did not seem to care whether his best birds won or lost.
Translations
[edit]contest
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Verb
[edit]cockfight (third-person singular simple present cockfights, present participle cockfighting, simple past and past participle cockfought)
- To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
- 1994, Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, page 245:
- I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.
Translations
[edit]participate in a cockfighting event
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