cock
Definitions
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Vulva, vagina. Southern-US
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Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat. abbreviation, alt-of
- A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
- A male bird, especially:
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- A surname.
- A small conical pile of hay or grass.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
- A cock pigeon.
- A cock pigeon
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- 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.
- 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.
Equivalents
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Bosanskibaromćaoćudughorozkladakurackuspenepetaopijetaopijevacкупапевацпетаопијевацпијетаоударникхороз
Catalàclau
Danskhane
Gaeilgemaig
Gàidhligcoileach
Hrvatskibaromćaoćudughorozkladakurackuspenepetaopijetaopijevacкупапевацпетаопијевацпијетаоударникхороз
Հայերենշնիկ
Íslenskaspenna
Latinamentula
Latviešugailis
Македонскипетле
Românăcocoș
Српскиbaromćaoćudughorozkladakurackuspenepetaopijetaopijevacкупапевацпетаопијевацпијетаоударникхороз
தமிழ்முட்டாள்
Türkçesik
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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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