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Cockfight

Noun CEFR B2
ˈkɒkˌfaɪt

Definitions

A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

Equivalents

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Examples

“This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think⟳, but could not solve⟳ it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke⟳ and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat⟳ scarcely anything; and even when he went to the cock-fight did not seem to care whether his best birds won or lost.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

cockfighter Cockfighting cockfighting pit Cockfights cockfish cockflesh

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