cock¹ /kok/

1. A male bird, esp of the domestic fowl (also often as combining form, eg cockbird, cock-robin, cock-sparrow)
2. A male crab, lobster or salmon
3. A weathercock
4. (sometimes as old cock) a familiar form of address to a man (slang)
5. A strutting chief or leader (slang)
6. Anything set erect
7. A tap
8. Part of the lock of a gun, held back by a spring, which, when released by the trigger, produces the discharge
9. The penis (vulgar sl)
10. Nonsense (informal)

1. To set erect or upright (often with up)
2. To set up the brim of
3. To draw back (eg the cock of a gun)
4. To turn up or to one side
5. To tilt up (one's head, ears, etc) knowingly, inquiringly or scornfully

1. To strut
2. To swagger

cocked adjective

1. Set erect
2. Turned up or to one side
3. (of a gun) with the cock drawn back, ready to fire

cockˈer noun

1. Someone who follows cockfighting
2. A cocker spaniel (see below)
3. A term of familiarity (slang)

cockˈerel noun

A young cock (see also cockle⁵)

cockˈily adverb

cockˈiness, cocksˈiness or coxˈiness noun

cockˈy, cocksˈy or coxˈy adjective

1. Self-important, bumptious
2. Pert

cock-a-doodle-dooˈ noun

(imit) the crow of a cock

intransitive verb

To crow

cock-a-hoopˈ adjective

1. In exultant spirits
2. Boastful

cockaleekie see cockieleekie below.

cockalōˈrum noun

1. A bumptious little person
2. A boys' jumping game

cockˈamamie adjective (US sl)

Ridiculous, incredible

cockˈ-and-bullˈ adjective

(of a story) fabricated and incredible

cockˈ-broth noun

The broth made from a boiled cock

cockchafer noun see separate entry.

cockˈ-crow noun

Early morning, when cocks crow

cocked hat noun

1. An old-fashioned three-cornered hat
2. A small triangle on a navigational chart formed in taking account of three bearing measurements (nautical)

cocker spaniel noun

A small spaniel used to retrieve birds in game shooting

cockˈeye noun

A squinting eye

cockeye bob or cockeyed bob noun (Aust sl)

1. A sudden thunderstorm
2. A cyclone

cockˈeyed adjective

1. Having a cockeye
2. Off the straight, awry (informal)
3. Tipsy (informal)
4. Crazy, absurd (informal)

cockˈfight or cockˈfighting noun

1. A fight or contest between gamecocks
2. A fight

cockhorseˈ noun

A child's imaginary or toy horse

adjective

Prancing, proud

adverb

1. Properly a-cockhorseˈ (ie on cockhorse) on horseback
2. Exultingly

cockieleekˈie or cockyleekˈy or cock(-)a(-)leekˈie noun (Scot)

Soup made from a fowl and leeks

cocking piece noun

A piece of wood used to build a roof out over eaves (also sprocket)

cockˈlaird noun (Scot)

The owner of a small farm, who farms it in person

cockˈloft noun

A small room just under the roof

cockˈmatch noun

A cockfight

cock-of-the-rockˈ noun

A S American bird of the family Cotingidae

cock-pad(d)le or cock-paidle see paddle³

cockˈpit noun

1. A sheltered depression in the deck of a yacht or small ship
2. (in aircraft) a compartment in the fuselage, usu for the pilot or rarely for the passenger(s)
3. The driver's seat in a racing car
4. A pit or enclosed space where gamecocks fought
5. A frequent battleground
6. Part of a ship-of-war's lower regions used for the wounded in action

cock'sˈ-comb or cocksˈcomb noun

1. The comb or crest on a cock's head
2. A jester's cap
3. A crest-like crystalline mineral aggregate (as in cockscomb pyrites)
4. A name for various plants, esp Celosia cristata (family Amarantaceae), with a fasciated inflorescence like a cock's comb, also yellow rattle (genus Rhinanthus), and sainfoin
5. A coxcomb

cocksˈfoot noun

A Eurasian grass (Dactylis glomerata) with inflorescences like a cock's foot

cockˈ-shoot noun (obsolete)

A glade where woodcock were netted as they shot through

cockˈshot noun

A cockshy

cockˈshut noun (archaic or dialect)

Twilight, prob referring to the time when poultry are shut up for the night

cockˈshy noun

1. A throw at a target, orig a cock, for amusement
2. An object set up for this purpose
3. An object of criticism or ridicule

cock-sparrˈow noun

1. A male sparrow
2. A small, lively person

cockˈspur noun

1. A spur on the leg of a gamecock
2. A type of catch used on casement windows
3. A hawthorn (Crataegus crusgalli) with long thorns and orange autumn foliage

cockspur grass noun

(Echinochloa crusgalli) an invasive grass of warmer, orig only tropical, climates

cockˈsucker noun (vulgar sl)

1. A contemptible person who attempts to ingratiate himself with his superiors
2. A toady
3. A male homosexual

cockˈsure adjective

Irritatingly self-confident or self-assured

cockˈsurely adverb

cockˈsureness noun

cockˈteaser noun (vulgar sl)

A woman who deliberately provokes a man's sexual arousal, then refuses sexual intercourse

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