cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: caulk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: cocks
Etymology: 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.
Senses: glosses: A male bird, especially:
A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
glosses: A male bird, especially:
A cock pigeon.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1864, Robert Niccol, Essay on Sugar, and General Treatise on Sugar Refining:
glosses: A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
glosses: The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
examples: text: She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 356:
text: 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
ref: 2005, System of a Down, “Cigaro”:
related: word: cawk
glosses: A penis.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The circle at the end of the rink.
examples: text: […] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said.
ref: 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 32:
text: […] in 1803; my eyes transmogrified […]; my nose had lost its pretty cock, and had grown elegantly hooked; and […]
ref: 1843, James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Fraser's Magazine, page 694:
text: 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, […]
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
glosses: A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor:
text: "You used to talk an awful lot of cock."
ref: 1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin:
text: That Hitler's armies can't be beat is just a load of cock, / For Marshal Timoshenko's boys are pissing through von Bock […]
ref: 2013, M. J. Trow, Swearing Like A Trooper: Rude Slang of World War Two:
glosses: Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
examples: text: All right, cock?
text: 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 […]
ref: 1848, Thomas Frost, Paul the Poacher, page 118:
glosses: A man; a fellow.
raw_tags: as term of address
glosses: A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
glosses: Shuttlecock.
examples: text: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
glosses: A chief person; a leader or master.
examples: text: The contrarye [side of a die] to this... was called Venus, or Cous, and yt was cocke, the beste that might be cast.
ref: 1542, Erasmus, translated by Nicholas Udall, Apophthegmata, page 164:
text: 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, […]
ref: 1672 (original), 1776 (printed), Andrew Marvell, The Works of Andrew Marvell, page 154
text: Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us.
ref: 1711 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, July 31, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 132; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1833, James Shirley, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, page 232:
glosses: A leading thing.
examples: text: This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock;
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: "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."
ref: 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 62:
text: And here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight.
ref: 1842 (published 1856), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems …, page 334
glosses: The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2005, Roderick Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, “Life in the Nursery”, in Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 21:
synonyms: cockfish
coordinate_terms: hen
henfish
glosses: A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
examples: text: Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.
ref: 1656, William Dugard, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The style or gnomon of a sundial.
examples: text: The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.
ref: 1833, John Holland, Treatise on the Manufactures in Metal:
glosses: The indicator of a balance.
examples: text: A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “London Gazette”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
Synonyms: sense: male bird
word: cockbird
sense: male chicken
word: rooster
sense: penis
word: penis
Hyponyms: sense: valve
word: bibb
sense: valve
word: bibcock
sense: valve
word: seacock
sense: valve
word: sillcock
sense: valve
word: stopcock
Derived terms: acock
a-cock-horse
ball cock
ballcock
Banbury story of a cock and a bull
Banbury story of a cock and bull
beat the cock
bibcock
billy-cock
blackcock
black cock
boycock
by cock
by cock and pie
Chad Thundercock
chaparral cock
clipcock
cockable
cock-a-doodle-do
cock-a-doodle-doo
cockaholic
cock-a-hoop
cockale
cock-a-leekie
cockaludicrous
cock and ball torture
cock and bull
cock-and-bull story
cock and bull story
cock and hen
cock-and-hen club
cock-and-pinch
cockbag
cock-bawd
cock-biting
cockbiting
cockblock
cock block
cockblocker
cockbrain
cockbrained
cockbreath
cockbulge
cock cage
cockchafer
cock cheese
cock-cheese
cockcrow
cock-crow
cockcrowing
cock-drunk
cock egg
cocker
cockerel
cocker spaniel
cock eye
cock-eye
cockeye
cockeyed
cock-eyed
cockface
cockfag
cock-feather
cock feather
cockfight
cockfighter
cock-fighting
cockfighting
cockflesh
cockfuck
cockfucker
cock gobbler
cockhead
cockhole
cock holster
cock-holster
cock-horse
cock in a frock
cock in the henhouse
cock juice
cock-knocker
cock knocker
cockless
cocklet
cocklick
cocklicker
cocklight
cocklike
cockling
cockloft
cockmaster
cockmatch
cockmeat
cockmonger
cockmunch
cockmuncher
cocknugget
cocknut
cockocracy
cock of the plains
cock-of-the-rock
cock of the roost
cock of the walk
cock on
cock-on
cock one's toes
cock-padle
cock pilot
cock-pit
cockpit
cock pump
cockpunch
cock ring
cock-robin
cock-robin shop
cock-rock
cock rock
cock rocker
cock rooster
cocksack
cock sack
cockscomb
cockscrow
cockserver
cocksfoot
cockshaft
cockshead
cockshit
cockshot
cockshut
cockshy
cocksicle
cockslap
cock slave
cocksleeve
cockslut
cocksman
cocksmith
cock snot
cock sock
cock-socket
cocksocket
cock socket
cock-sparrow
cockspur
cockstain
cock-stand
cockster
cockstride
cocksuck
cocksucker
cock sucker
cock-sucker
cocksucking
cocksure
cock-sure
cock tease
cocktease
cock-tease
cockteaser
cock teaser
cock-teaser
cock throwing
cocktip
cock-up
cock up
cockwad
cock watch
cockweed
cockwhore
cockwipe
cock womble
cockworm
cocky
cold-cock
cold cock
donkeycock
donkey cock
drain cock
draincock
festy cock
fighting cock
firecock
fitless cock
four-way cock
gamecock
gauge cock
girlcock
gock
Guianan cock-of-the-rock
halfcock
half-cock
haycock
heath cock
heather cock
horse cock
horsecock
jungle cock
live like a fighting cock
monster cock
monster-cock
monstercock
moorcock
nestle-cock
niddicock
peacock
petcock
pinchcock
ride the cock carousel
rock out with one's cock out
roostcock
sage cock
sand cock
seacock
sea cock
sillcock
snowcock
snow-cock
stop cock
stopcock
stormcock
stunt cock
suck cock
suck donkey cock
suck my cock
suck someone's cock
supercock
talk cock
that cock won't fight
Three Cocks
throstlecock
tripcock
try cock
turkey cock
turkeycock
turkey-cock
turncock
uncockable
watercock
weathercock
weather cock
woodcock
Related terms: cockerel