Meaning of cock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Vulva, vagina.
   Southern-US
2. Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
   abbreviation, alt-of
3. A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
   obsolete
4. A male bird, especially:
5. A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
   countable, uncountable
6. A surname.
7. A small conical pile of hay or grass.
8. A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
9. A cock pigeon.
   countable, uncountable
10. A cock pigeon
11. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
    countable, uncountable
12. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing
13. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
    countable, uncountable
14. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism
15. A penis.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar
16. The circle at the end of the rink.
    countable, uncountable
17. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
    countable, uncountable
18. A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
    Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
19. Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
    Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, uncountable
20. An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.
    UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
21. A man; a fellow.
    Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, especially, slang, uncountable
22. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
    countable, uncountable
23. Shuttlecock.
    countable, informal, uncountable
24. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
    countable, uncountable
25. A chief person; a leader or master.
    countable, dated, humorous, often, uncountable
26. A leading thing.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
27. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
    countable, uncountable
28. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
    countable, uncountable
29. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
    countable, uncountable
30. The indicator of a balance.
    countable, uncountable
31. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […], from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.”

“She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?”

“My cock is much bigger than yours / My cock can walk right through the door / With a feeling so pure / It's got you screaming back for more”

“[…] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said.”

“[…] in 1803; my eyes transmogrified […]; my nose had lost its pretty cock, and had grown elegantly hooked; and […]”

“One day, however, by her self-important gait, the side-way turn of her head, and the cock of her eye, as she pried into one and another nook of the garden, […]”

“"You used to talk an awful lot of cock."”

“That Hitler's armies can't be beat is just a load of cock, / For Marshal Timoshenko's boys are pissing through von Bock […]”

“The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.”

“CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE: COMPRISING "COCKS," OR "CATCHPENNIES," A Large and Curious Assortment of STREET DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC STORIES IN PROSE AND VERSE, […]”

“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 […]”

“All right, cock?”

“Now, in coming down here, I journeyed part of the way with a jolly old cock, who shed a tear with me every time the coach stopped […]”

““’Ullo, cock,” it said, amiably enough. “So you’ve come to, ’ave yer? ’Ang on a bit, an’ I’ll get you a cup o’ char.””

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!”

“The contrarye [side of a die] to this... was called Venus, or Cous, and yt was cocke, the beste that might be cast.”

“Tis sir Salomon's sword; cock of as many men as it hath been drawn against. Woe worth the man that comes in the way of so dead-doing a tool, […]”

“Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us.”

“She is a widow, don, consider that; Has buried one was thought a Hercules, Two cubits taller, and a man that cut Three inches deeper in the say, than I; Consider that too : She may be cock o'twenty, nay, for aught know, she is immortal.”

“This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock;”

“"I suppose, John," said Clara, as her brother entered the apartment," you are glad of a weaker cup this morning than those you were drinking last night - you were carousing till after the first cock."”

“And here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight.”

“As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.”

“Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.”

“The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.”

“A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw”

“Near-synonyms: rick, stook, shock”

“The farmhands stack the hay into cocks.”

“Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear, Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.”

“My back is made of whalebone And my cock is made of brass”

“The dog come a-trottin' and the dog come a-lopin' A purty little gal with her cock wide open.”

“I stuck my fist up in her cock, she didn't budge or move it.”

“She smelled like she was on her period and hadn't changed pads. On ah many occasions I heard men say her cock smelled through her clothing.”

“Yond tall anchoring bark [appears] / Diminished to her cock; her cock, a buoy / Almost too small for sight.”

“By cock and pie.”

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