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单词 to cock one's ears
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to cock one's ears
P3. to cock one's ears and variants: (of an animal, esp. a horse or dog) to prick up one's ears, esp. in response to or anticipation of a sound; (of a person) to incline one's ears in order to hear something; to listen attentively to or for something.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > listen attentively [phrase]
to bow the earc1230
to lend audience1580
to lend an ear or one's ears1583
to lend hearing1603
to prick up one's ears1682
to cock one's ears1700
to have one's ears flapping1925
to pin one's ears back1947
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (intransitive)] > listen > listen attentively
to lift up one's ears1548
to prick up one's ears1682
to cock one's ears1700
to listen up1933
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > cock the ears
to cock one's ears1700
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > act in particular way
fawna1250
stoop?1530
kennel1552
fetch-and-carrya1616
to cock one's ears1714
beg1816
toll1851
trust1939
1700 S. Parker Homer in Nutshell i. 6 He smirks, he cocks his Ears, and works his Tail, O'rjoy'd to think how rarely he shall sail.
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iv. 131 Our Light-Foot barks, and cocks his ears.
1770 P. Forbes Jrnls. Episcopal Visitations (1886) 300 The poor Brutes [sc. horses]..cock'd their Lugs when they came in sight of Maryburgh.
1894 J. Jacobs More Celtic Fairy Tales xxviii. 15 He cocked his ears, and the next thing he heard was the maaing of a sheep.
1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox ii. 86 His ears were cocked and his keen nose flaired.
1939 S. O'Casey I knock at Door 88 She cocked her ear, for that mouth of a drummer was saying something.
1941 S. Cloete Hill of Doves vii. 110 He [sc. a horse] would flick his long tail and cock his ears this way and that.
2006 Wanderlust Mar. 116/1 I cocked my ears and followed the sound on the breeze.
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