cock

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noun
Plural noun:
cocks
  1. 1.

    A male bird, especially:

  2. 2.

    (countable, uncountable)A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.

  3. 3.

    (countable, uncountable)The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.

  4. 4.

    (colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar)A penis.

  5. 5.

    (countable, uncountable)(curling) The circle at the end of the rink.

  6. 6.

    (countable, uncountable)The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.

  7. 7.

    (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.

  8. 8.

    (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, uncountable)Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.

  9. 9.

    (UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.

    This title ['Death Hunter'] refers not only to his vending accounts of all the murders that become topics of public conversation, but to his being a 'murderer' on his own account, as in the sale of 'cocks' mentioned incidentally in this narrative. If the truth be saleable , a running patterer prefers selling the truth […]

  10. 10.

    (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, especially, slang, uncountable)(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.

    All right, cock?

  11. 11.

    (countable, uncountable)A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.

  12. 12.

    (countable, informal, uncountable)Shuttlecock.

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verb
V_es/s
cocks
V_ing/Gerund
cocking
V_ed/pp
cocked
  1. 1.

    (ambitransitive)To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.

  2. 2.

    (intransitive)To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.

    In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.

  3. 3.

    (transitive)To erect; to turn up.

  4. 4.

    (British, Ireland, slang, transitive)To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.

    Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s "Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."

  5. 5.

    (transitive)To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.

    He cocked his hat jauntily.

  6. 6.

    (dated, intransitive)To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.

  7. 7.

    (dated, intransitive)To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.

  8. 8.

    (obsolete, transitive)To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).

  9. 9.

    (transitive)To form into piles.

interjection

interjection
  1. 1.

    (Ireland, UK, slang)Expression of annoyance.

name

name
  1. 1.

    (obsolete)A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

cockerelcock and bull story

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (cock, male bird), from *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (cock), probably of origin.

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