cock

CEFRC1

/kɒk/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An adult male chicken.

  2. 02

    verb

    To turn or hold something at an angle.

Examples

  • He was the cock of the walk.

  • It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.

  2. A male bird, especially:

  3. A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).

More examples

In context

  • The crowing of a cock is the harbinger of dawn.

  • Tis sir Salomon's sword; cock of as many men as it hath been drawn against. Woe worth the man that comes in the way of so dead-doing a tool, […]

  • This title ['Death Hunter'] refers not only to his vending accounts of all the murders that become topics of public conversation, but to his being a 'murderer' on his own account, as in the sale of 'cocks' mentioned incidentally in this narrative. If the trut...

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Origin

noun

From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.