Meaning

23 senses
  1. A male bird, especially:

    (countable, uncountable)A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).

    Männchen, Tauber, Täuber

    adult male bird

  2. (countable, uncountable)A cock pigeon.

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

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

    Hahn

    куро́кkurók

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

    obscene terms for penis

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

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

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

    приду́рокpridúrok

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

  10. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, especially, slang, uncountable)A man; a fellow.

    All right, cock?

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

  12. (countable, informal, uncountable)Shuttlecock.

Examples

92 sentences
  1. Tom cocked his head to one side.

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  2. My gun is cocked and ready to fire.

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  3. Tom heard the sound of a gun being cocked.

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  4. Tom cocked his gun.

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  5. Tom cocked the gun.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism:
slang: stupid person:
small pile:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
any male bird:
male pigeon:
hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism:

Origin

From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West G

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.

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”).

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.

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Forms

plural: cocks
Singularcock
Pluralcocks

regular

Synonyms

17 synonyms
penis:penis
male bird:cockbird
male chicken:rooster
Close in meaning

Word family

185 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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