cocklikeadj.adv.
/ˈkɒklʌɪk/, U.S. /ˈkɑkˌlaɪk/ A. adj.
1. Reminiscent or characteristic of a cock (see cock n.1 I.) in appearance, nature, or behaviour. Also (and in earliest use) figurative: lecherous; strutting; conceited.
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the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > [adjective]
opinative1517
opinionativea1549
nose-wise?1566
self-conceited?1574
self-weening1574
opiniative?1575
opinionate1575
conceited1579
weening1579
self-opinionative1584
self-opinionate1602
well-opinioned1608
self-opinioned1609
opinioned1612
opinionated1630
cocklikea1635
self-opinionated1649
vogie1719
swell-headed1817
egotistical1825
airish1842
popular1848
big-headed1860
biggity1880
bigsie1881
ikey1881
Tappertitian1895
swollen-headed1928
ditzy1976
a1635 T. Randolph High & Mightie Commendation Good Ale (1642) sig. A3v Goe you tame Gallants, you that..would accounted be Cocks of the Game,..that think't no vice, With Cock-like lust to trad your Cockatrice.
1666 Worlds Wonder ii His Legs have Eagles Clawes, And Cock-like Spurs, as sharp as Pinns.
1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto III 22 Had a..Cock-like flea..Hop'd from the clouds to Agamemnon's back.
1848 M. Loudon Maternal Love II. xxxvii. 319 A sort of bantam cock-like strut, which certainly did render him a strange combination of the ridiculous and the disgusting.
1889 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 66/1 The upper tail-coverts give the bird the appearance of a cocklike tail.
1936 C. Stead Beauties & Furies (2016) 241 Tramping out behind her, his shoulders swayed back curiously, with a cocklike swagger.
1993 A. Arias-Misson Mind Crime August Saint 278 His cocklike bobbings of the head and cluck-clucking.
2015 A. Lebeau in R. D. Harbison et al. Hamilton & Hardy's Industr. Toxicol. (ed. 6) xxii. 151/2 As the disease progresses further..a ‘cocklike’ gait, and other gait abnormalities will develop.
2. Resembling a penis (see cock n.1 9a).
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1972 C. Wood Veterans ii. i. 107 Your grotesques with their cock-like hammers.
1990 P. Booth Malibu x. 199 A cocklike mike sidled up to her lips. ‘Entertainment Tonight,’ said Leeza Gibbons.
2011 @Scarlett_Thorne 11 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Doing a stock take: dildos, dongs, strap-ons and cock-like objects of desire.
B. adv.
In the manner of a cock (cock n.1 I.); conceitedly, aggressively, etc.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [adverb]
offensively1556
cocklike1648
aggressively1793
the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > [adverb]
conceitedly1596
self-conceitedly1598
cocklike1648
biggity1880
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides 185 Ile hug, Ile kisse, Ile play, And Cock-like Hens Ile tread: And sport it any way; But in the Bridall Bed.
1787 Mil. Atchievements Citizens York 21 In broils 'twixt men, some fight cock-like, and others hen.
1896 H. B. Sprague Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield xvii. 91 (note) Strutting cock-like! vain as a little cock.
1914 F. M. Ford Coll. Poems 59 I toil whilst you crow cocklike.
2011 T. Kilcourse More Short Stories 31 Harry kept a cock, which cock like, crowed, much to the annoyance of Roger, and one or two other residents.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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