cock.
A male bird, especially:
Meaning & usage
A male bird, especially: A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
A male bird, especially: A cock pigeon.
A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
A penis.
The circle at the end of the rink.
The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.
A man; a fellow.
All right, cock?
A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
Shuttlecock.
A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
A chief person; a leader or master.
A leading thing.
The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
The style or gnomon of a sundial.
The indicator of a balance.
The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *kukkaz Proto-West Germanic *kokk Old English cocc Middle English cok English cock From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
To erect; to turn up.
To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
He cocked his hat jauntily.
To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *kukkaz Proto-West Germanic *kokk Old English cocc Middle English cok English cock From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
Expression of annoyance.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *kukkaz Proto-West Germanic *kokk Old English cocc Middle English cok English cock From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
A small conical pile of hay or grass.
The farmhands stack the hay into cocks.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English cokke, cock, cok, from Old English *cocc (“heap, pile”, attested in place names), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“mass, bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”). Cognate with dialectal German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), Norman coque (“small haystack”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).
To form into piles.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English cokke, cock, cok, from Old English *cocc (“heap, pile”, attested in place names), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“mass, bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”). Cognate with dialectal German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), Norman coque (“small haystack”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).
Vulva, vagina.
Where this word comes from
Uncertain. Some authors speculate it derives from cockle, a yonic fertility symbol, others suggested it entered Southern US vernacular during the period of French rule (of Louisiana) from Cajun French coquille (“shell”) (itself the source of cockle), which in 18th and 19th century slang meant the vulva.
A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
Where this word comes from
from Middle English cok, from Old French coque (“a type of small boat”), from child-talk coco ('egg').
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