cock
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kukkaz
Proto-West Germanic *kokk
Old English cocc
Middle English cok
English cock
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.
Inflected forms:
form: cocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A male bird, especially:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A male bird, especially:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
vulgar
examples: 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
gloss: The circle at the end of the rink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] 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, […]
gloss: A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
gloss: Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
uncountable
examples: "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 […]
gloss: An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: 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 […]
gloss: A man; a fellow.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
especially
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.”
gloss: A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Shuttlecock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
gloss: A chief person; a leader or master.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
humorous
often
uncountable
gloss: A leading thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The style or gnomon of a sundial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.
gloss: The indicator of a balance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.
gloss: The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw
gloss: To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Cocked, fired, and missed his man.
gloss: To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
gloss: To erect; to turn up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.
Dick would cock his nose in scorn.
gloss: To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
transitive
examples: Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s
"Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."
gloss: To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He cocked his hat jauntily.
gloss: To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: The Sentry, to this question, said nothing in reply; / But first he cocked his rifle, and then he cocked his eye.
gloss: To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
gloss: To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: Expression of annoyance.
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
Synonyms: cockbird
rooster
Related words: cockerel
Derived words: acock
a-cock-horse
ballcock
ball cock
Banbury story of a cock and a bull
Banbury story of a cock and bull
beat the cock
bibcock
billy-cock
black cock
blackcock
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 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
cock block
cockblock
cockblocker
cockbrain
cockbrained
cockbreath
cockbulge
cock cage
cockchafer
cock-cheese
cock cheese
cock-crow
cockcrow
cockcrowing
cock-drunk
cock egg
cocker
cockerel
cocker spaniel
cock eye
cockeye
cock-eye
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
cockmonster
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 smoker
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
cocktease
cock-tease
cock tease
cock teaser
cockteaser
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
heath cock
heather cock
horse cock
horsecock
jungle cock
live like a fighting cock
monstercock
monster cock
monster-cock
moorcock
nestle-cock
niddicock
peacock
petcock
pinchcock
release cock
ride the cock carousel
rock out with one's cock out
roostcock
sage cock
sand cock
seacock
sea cock
sillcock
snowcock
snow-cock
softcock
stopcock
stop cock
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
weather cock
weathercock
woodcock
haycock
cock a deaf 'un
cock a snook
cock it over
cock off
cock one's ear
decock
recock
uncock
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: mannetjie
lang: Old Armenian
word: վարուժան
roman: varužan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: xoruz
lang: Basque
word: ar
lang: Bulgarian
word: мъ́жка пти́ца
roman: mǎ́žka ptíca
lang: Catalan
word: mascle
lang: Chechen
word: боргӏал
roman: borğal
lang: Czech
word: kohout
lang: Danish
word: kok
lang: Danish
word: han
lang: Danish
word: fasankok
lang: Dutch
word: mannetje
lang: Erzya
word: атякш
roman: aťakš
lang: Esperanto
word: maskla birdo
lang: Esperanto
word: virseksa birdo
lang: Estonian
word: isaslind
lang: Faroese
word: steggi
lang: Finnish
word: koiras
lang: French
word: mâle
lang: German
word: Männchen
lang: Greek
word: αρσενικός φασιανός
roman: arsenikós fasianós
lang: Hungarian
word: kakas
lang: Icelandic
word: karlfugl
lang: Ido
word: hano
lang: Ido
word: hanulo
lang: Indonesian
word: burung jantan
lang: Indonesian
word: jago
lang: Ingush
word: боргӏал
roman: borğal
lang: Irish
word: coileach
lang: Italian
word: maschio
lang: Italian
word: uccello
lang: Japanese
word: 雄の鳥
roman: osu no tori
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: dîk
lang: Latin
word: gallus
lang: Latvian
word: gailis
lang: Malayalam
word: പൂവൻ
roman: pūvaṉ
lang: Maltese
word: għasfur
lang: Māori
word: pīkaokao
lang: Māori
word: tīkaokao
lang: Ojibwe
word: naabese
lang: Oromo
word: kormaa
lang: Polish
word: kogut
lang: Portuguese
word: ave-macho
lang: Romanian
word: bărbătuș
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: coileach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мужјак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mužjak
lang: Spanish
word: ave macho
lang: Swedish
word: tupp
lang: Turkish
word: horoz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: خروس
roman: horos
lang: Turkmen
word: horaz
lang: Udi
word: дадал
roman: dadal
lang: Udmurt
word: атас
roman: atas
lang: Zazaki
word: dik (diq)
lang: Bulgarian
word: гъ́лъб
roman: gǎ́lǎb
lang: Catalan
word: colom
lang: Danish
word: duerik
lang: Dutch
word: doffer
lang: Esperanto
word: virkolombo
lang: Esperanto
word: kolombiĉo
lang: German
word: Tauber
lang: German
word: Täuber
lang: German
word: Tauberich
lang: German
word: Täuberich
lang: German
word: Taubenmännchen
lang: Ido
word: kolombulo
lang: Low German
word: Düffer
lang: Portuguese
word: pombo
lang: Volapük
word: hipijun
lang: Czech
word: kokot
lang: Dutch
word: kip zonder kop
lang: French
word: gland
lang: French
word: con
lang: French
word: conne
lang: French
word: débile
lang: French
word: bouffon
lang: French
word: bouffonne
lang: French
word: triso
lang: French
word: abruti
lang: French
word: abrutie
lang: French
word: imbécile
lang: Hungarian
word: hülye
lang: Hungarian
word: idióta
lang: Hungarian
word: buta
lang: Hungarian
word: ostoba
lang: Hungarian
word: tökkelütött
lang: Hungarian
word: együgyű
lang: Hungarian
word: barom
lang: Hungarian
word: üresfejű
lang: Hungarian
word: tökfej
lang: Hungarian
word: bolond
lang: Italian
word: cazzone
lang: Portuguese
word: otário
lang: Russian
word: приду́рок
roman: pridúrok
lang: Tamil
word: முட்டாள்
roman: muṭṭāḷ