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cock-a-doodle-doo, n.
A conventional representation of the crow of the cock; a name for this, and hence, a nursery or humorous name for the cock (also cock-a-doodle).
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (1884) 31 The yung cockerels..followid after with a cockaloodletoo as wel as ther strenhth wuld suffer them. 1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 386. 1674 Flatman Belly God 24 In the long Egg lyes Cock-a-doodle-doo. 1719D'Urfey Pills I. 308 My dear Cock a doodle, My Jewel, my Joy. 1798Southey Ballads, Surgeon's Warning, The Cock he crew cock-a-doodle-do, Past five! the watchman said. 1841Lever C. O'Malley lxxxiv. 404 A loud cock-a-doo-do-doo that some bold chanticleer set up at the moment. 1852Reade Peg Woff. 25 It seemed not unlike a small cock-a-doodle-doo of general defiance.
attrib.1856Reade Never too Late lxxxv. (D.), Living almost entirely upon cock-a-doodle broth.
Hence cock-a-doodle v., to crow.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 77 The cockadoodling cocks. |