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cock-a-doodle-doon.int. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. In β. forms shortened < α. forms.The crow of a cockerel is variously represented in other languages, compare e.g. classical Latin coco coco, post-classical Latin cucurru (9th cent.), French cocorico, coquerico (1547 in Middle French as coquerycoq, a1550 as coquelicoq), Italian chicchirichì (a1625), Spanish quiquiriquí (1777 or earlier), German kikeriki (17th cent. as kekerlekyh, 18th cent. as kikri; compare also †guck guck gurith (1595), †tutterhui (1592)), Dutch kukeleku (19th cent.), Swedish kukeliku, kuckeliku (1688 as ku ku li ku ku li ku, 1732 as kuckliku), Danish kykliky (c1700 as kyklehy; compare also †kykkehøhø (1672)). A. n.the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > crowing of 1573 G. Harvey (1884) 31 The yung cockerels..followid after with a cockaloodletoo as wel as ther strenhth wuld suffer them. 1791 ‘A. Pasquin’ 51 Tell the young Squire, proud-perch'd upon the rails Of yonder straw-yard, to be less superb: He crows in alt his cock-a-doodle-doo. 1852 C. Reade 25 It seemed not unlike a small cock-a-doodle-doo of general defiance. 1958 R. L. Taylor xxxiv. 367 The people..now burst into view with a cockadoodle of triumph and fanned out over the sand, firing as they ran. 1993 A. Gimeno & J. Martinez-Luciana tr. E. Quiles Ophelia without Hamlet in Spring 65/1 She shouts out a long and erotic cock-a-doodle-doo, listens, and, in reply, cock-a-doodle-doos are heard from within other rooms. 2008 2 July a10/1 It seems a few late sleepers have complained in the past about the cock-a-doodle-doos roosters make in the morning. the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock 1604 ‘W. Terilo’ sig. B3v Then Cocke a doodle doo, The houre's diuided right: And olde to whit to whoo Did watch the winter night. 1674 T. Flatman 24 In the long Egg lyes Cock-a-doodle-doo. 1757 I. Cousteil tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas in (new ed.) iii. 78 You will live in his House like a little Cock a Doodle upon your own Dung-hill. 1869 L. M. Alcott in Aug. 374 Many another amiable hen and gallant cockadoodle fell a victim to that mysterious hand. 1959 J. M. Boggie vii. vii. 237 On they trekked again along another barbed-wire fence, and in a direction where Simon declared he had heard cockadoodledoos crowing. 1993 2 Mar. 30/4 The first book—one on farmyard animals—was easy. We'd spotted moo-cows, baa-lambs, cock-a-doodle-doos, pussy cats and clucking chickens dead easy. B. int.1606 sig. C A Cocke hard by them fell a crowing, when the other Girle mocking the Cocke with these words, Cocka doodle dooe, Peggy hath lost her shooe, and called to her Besse, canst not thou doe so? a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. ii. 390 Hark, hark, I heare, the straine of strutting Chanticlere cry cockadidle-dowe. 1838 R. Southey Surgeon's Warning (rev. ed.) in VI. 189 The Cock he crew cock-a-doodle-do, Past five! the watchmen said. 1888 H. Melville 271 Went up the cheering, the quick chanticleering;..‘Cock-a-doodle-doo!’ and ‘Row, boys, row!’ 1962 G. Ortutay 515 The furious little cock flew to the top of the palace fence and began to crow loudly: ‘Cock-a-doodle-doo, Turkish Emperor, give me back my diamond halfpenny.’ 2008 R. Raisin iv. 23 Then the cockerel started up. Cock-a-doodle-doo, eh? You barmpot, it's the middle of the bleeding night, some alarm clock you are. Compounds C1. As a modifier. 1847 12 Pref. p. iv Punch hates a cock-a-doodle crow of triumph. 1859 F. W. Robinson II. iv. vi. 55 He has got the look of a good sort—nothing uppish, is there? None of your cock-a-doodle-doo airs about him? 1902 G. B. McCutcheon xiv. 154 You shall come next, Mr. Quentin; I shall take you on immediately after I have disposed of your cockadoodle friend. 1975 14 Jan. 6 a/3 After the cockadoodle strutting and chanticleering of Nikita Khrushchev, Brezhnev has been a stabilizing force in the Soviet leadership. 1925 W. H. Prince xix. 87 The last boy who was hauled aloft treated his punishers with such contempt as to emit ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’ sounds. 1963 E. Smith xvii. 220 It's no good doing owl hoots, because owls don't hoot in the daytime and our cock-a-doodle-doo noises aren't a bit real. 2009 G. Thompson xiii. 64 The early morning was quiet, except for the cock-a-doodle cry of a rooster on the farm behind Harker Hall. C2. 1856 C. Reade III. xxxiii. 332 Living almost entirely upon cock-a-doodle broth. 1868 T. Inman xv. 104 Let her..drink ‘cock-a-doodle broth’ (eggs beaten up with sherry, sugar and milk) every two hours until she sleeps. 1920 G. Saintsbury xi. 170 Sherry-and-egg and brandy-and-egg (‘cock-a-doodle broth’) are well-known restoratives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cock-a-doodle-doov.Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cock-a-doodle-doo n. Etymology: < cock-a-doodle-doo n. (compare forms at that entry). the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (intransitive)] > crow (of cock) 1596 A. Copley 78 They did so crauin-cockadoodle it As though they had run away victorie And left faire Sion in her dying fit. 1702 (ed. 2) 4 Of Love, that..our soft Dreams disturbs anights, With Cock-a-doodling for his Rights. 1921 Apr. 222/2 I had a toy hen and more toy chicks so we had quite a time cackling and cock-a-doodle-dooing! 1932 Aug. 181/2 He cock-a-doodled over the triumph of his endeavours in that direction. 1942 1 July 220/1 There will be some climbing down from the midden where they have been cock-a-doodle-dooing against the Church you love, and you the Christian. 2018 (Nexis) 4 Nov. h13 What good is a farm without a rooster?.. I can't wait until he starts cock-a-doodle-dooing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.int.1573 v.1596 |
