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单词 cockup
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cockupn.2

Brit. /ˈkɒkʌp/, U.S. /ˈkɑkˌəp/
Forms: 1700s– cockup, 1800s cock up, 1800s cockub, 1800s– cock-up.
Origin: A borrowing from Malay. Etymon: Malay kakap.
Etymology: Folk-etymological alteration of Malay kakap after cock-up n.1 Compare Javanese kakap.With cockup fish compare Malay ikan kakap ( < ikan fish + kakap ). Compare Dutch kakap , †kakop , †kacab (1656), and also kaalkop (1692), a folk-etymological alteration of the Malay or Javanese word, after Dutch kaalkop , lit. ‘baldhead’ ( < kaal bald (see callow adj.1) + kop head (see cop n.2); compare calcops n.).
More fully cockup fish. Any of several perciform food fishes of southern Asia and Australia; esp. the barramundi Lates calcarifer.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of genus Lates (Nile perch)
latus1598
cockup1718
lates1835
barramundi1873
Nile perch1931
1718 D. Beeckman Voy. to & from Island of Borneo ii. 39 The Rivers and the Sea Coasts afford..a sort of Fish called Cockup, the best tasted foreign Fish I ever met with.
1820 W. Hamilton Geogr., Statist., & Hist. Descr. Hindostan I. ii. 28 The bickty, or cockup, is an excellent fish, as is also the sable fish, which is uncommonly rich.
1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 505 Cockup, crabs, lobsters, shrimps.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 114 The Lates Nobilis of the erudite, somewhat freely rendered ‘cock-up-fish’ by the Bengalese.
1954 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 20 Jan. 7/3 From the coast of Queensland it ranges across North Australia to the west, and through the East Indies to India, where it is known as the Cock-up.
2008 S. J. M. Blaber Trop. Estuarine Fishes iii. 56 One of the exceptions to this is the commercially important Lates calcarifer (Barramundi, cock-up or sea bass) where adults of over a metre in length, as well as juveniles, are present.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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