cocklicranen.

Brit.

/ˈkɒklᵻkreɪn/, U.S.

/ˈkɑkliˌkreɪn/,

/ˈkɑkləˌkreɪn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: cock n.¹, -li- , crane n.¹

Etymology: < cock n.¹ + -li-, arbitrary element + crane n.¹, after Middle French (French) coquecigrue imaginary creature (1534 in the text translated in quot. 1653¹ at sense 1; in French also in the senses ‘illusion, absurdity’, ‘a person talking nonsense or telling ridiculous tales’), apparently showing a folk-etymological alteration of an earlier word (compare coquesague (a1407), coquefabuse (c1475), coquegrue (c1520), all in the sense ‘imaginary creature’) after coq cock n.¹, grue crane (see grue n.²), and perhaps ci- in cigogne stork.

Now archaic and rare.

1. An imaginary creature, perhaps combining features of a cockerel or rooster with those of a crane (see etymology).Originally in translations of Rabelais, and later only with reference or allusion to the uses in quots. 1653¹ and 1653².With quot. 1844, cf. sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical bird

pelicanOE

tiger1481

Stymphalid1560

roc1579

mamuque?1590

firebird1601

sunbird1616

ganzaa1633

cocklicrane1653

white bird1697

wakon-bird1778

simurgh1786

thunder-birda1827

huma1841

oozlum bird1858

lightning bird1870

jubjub1871

ho-ho bird1901

storm-bird1913

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xlix. 218 His Kingdome should be restored to him at the coming of the Cocklicranes [Fr. à la venue des Coquecigrues], which she called Coquecigrues.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xi. 80 When they did eate without disdaining the cocklicranes [Fr. coques cigrues].

1844 Edinb. Rev. July 35/2 We doubt whether this grand project has been yet seriously debated at the Tuileries. At present, it appears to rank with the vast but unfulfilled plans of the King of the ‘Cocklicranes’, developed by Rabelais.

1892 New Rev. Feb. 225 A wife whose registry exists in the kingdom of the cocklicranes and nowhere else.

1914 A. S. M. Chisholm Recreations of Physician vii. 156 If you start from Mohammed's Coffin and follow the cocklicranes, the East Wind will bear you to the misty confines of Caligia, where the people live in windmills and walk about with their heads in the clouds.

2003 S. Bernofsky tr. L. Harig Trip to Bordeaux 36 Gallant salligots with garlick, mouflin mouflard, fat cocklicranes neatly trussed.

2. In phrases alluding to quot. 1653¹ at sense 1, suggesting that a certain event, change, etc., is impossibly distant or will never come to pass, or that a certain state of affairs will continue indefinitely. Chiefly in the coming (also advent) of the cocklicranes, as the type of an event that is impossibly distant or will never happen.

ΚΠ

1828 J. Wilson et al. Noctes Ambrosianae xxxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 503 Reasons sufficient for being sorry were he [sc. the Emperor Nicholas] ever to be so far reduced as to look for the advent of the Cocklicranes to be reinstated on the throne of all the Russias.

1864 Punch 13 Feb. 63/1 Mr. Disraeli delivered a slashing speech against Ministers generally, but chiefly against Lord Russell, to whose office Mr. Disraeli has obtained his own consent to succeed, when the Tories and the Cocklicranes come in.

1919 Classical Jrnl. 14 207 Today the large body of college students is ignorant of biblical history and will remain so until the coming of the Cocklicranes.

1941 ‘J. J. Connington’ Twenty-one Clues vi. 79 ‘What are you doing there?’ he demanded. ‘Waiting for the Coming of the Cocklicranes,’ said Peter... ‘But they seem a bit behind time.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cocklicrane
释义	cocklicranen. Brit. /ˈkɒklᵻkreɪn/, U.S. /ˈkɑkliˌkreɪn/, /ˈkɑkləˌkreɪn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: cock n.¹, -li- , crane n.¹ Etymology: < cock n.¹ + -li-, arbitrary element + crane n.¹, after Middle French (French) coquecigrue imaginary creature (1534 in the text translated in quot. 1653¹ at sense 1; in French also in the senses ‘illusion, absurdity’, ‘a person talking nonsense or telling ridiculous tales’), apparently showing a folk-etymological alteration of an earlier word (compare coquesague (a1407), coquefabuse (c1475), coquegrue (c1520), all in the sense ‘imaginary creature’) after coq cock n.¹, grue crane (see grue n.²), and perhaps ci- in cigogne stork. Now archaic and rare. 1. An imaginary creature, perhaps combining features of a cockerel or rooster with those of a crane (see etymology).Originally in translations of Rabelais, and later only with reference or allusion to the uses in quots. 1653¹ and 1653².With quot. 1844, cf. sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical bird pelicanOE tiger1481 Stymphalid1560 roc1579 mamuque?1590 firebird1601 sunbird1616 ganzaa1633 cocklicrane1653 white bird1697 wakon-bird1778 simurgh1786 thunder-birda1827 huma1841 oozlum bird1858 lightning bird1870 jubjub1871 ho-ho bird1901 storm-bird1913 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xlix. 218 His Kingdome should be restored to him at the coming of the Cocklicranes [Fr. à la venue des Coquecigrues], which she called Coquecigrues. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xi. 80 When they did eate without disdaining the cocklicranes [Fr. coques cigrues]. 1844 Edinb. Rev. July 35/2 We doubt whether this grand project has been yet seriously debated at the Tuileries. At present, it appears to rank with the vast but unfulfilled plans of the King of the ‘Cocklicranes’, developed by Rabelais. 1892 New Rev. Feb. 225 A wife whose registry exists in the kingdom of the cocklicranes and nowhere else. 1914 A. S. M. Chisholm Recreations of Physician vii. 156 If you start from Mohammed's Coffin and follow the cocklicranes, the East Wind will bear you to the misty confines of Caligia, where the people live in windmills and walk about with their heads in the clouds. 2003 S. Bernofsky tr. L. Harig Trip to Bordeaux 36 Gallant salligots with garlick, mouflin mouflard, fat cocklicranes neatly trussed. 2. In phrases alluding to quot. 1653¹ at sense 1, suggesting that a certain event, change, etc., is impossibly distant or will never come to pass, or that a certain state of affairs will continue indefinitely. Chiefly in the coming (also advent) of the cocklicranes, as the type of an event that is impossibly distant or will never happen. ΚΠ 1828 J. Wilson et al. Noctes Ambrosianae xxxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 503 Reasons sufficient for being sorry were he [sc. the Emperor Nicholas] ever to be so far reduced as to look for the advent of the Cocklicranes to be reinstated on the throne of all the Russias. 1864 Punch 13 Feb. 63/1 Mr. Disraeli delivered a slashing speech against Ministers generally, but chiefly against Lord Russell, to whose office Mr. Disraeli has obtained his own consent to succeed, when the Tories and the Cocklicranes come in. 1919 Classical Jrnl. 14 207 Today the large body of college students is ignorant of biblical history and will remain so until the coming of the Cocklicranes. 1941 ‘J. J. Connington’ Twenty-one Clues vi. 79 ‘What are you doing there?’ he demanded. ‘Waiting for the Coming of the Cocklicranes,’ said Peter... ‘But they seem a bit behind time.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1653
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