Cock-crowing
11Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! — For the nursery rhyme, see Cock A Doodle Doo. Cock A Doodle Doo! or, The Crowing of the Nobel Cock Beneventano   Author(s) …
12Crowing — Crow Crow (kr[=o]), v. i. [imp. {Crew} (kr[udd]) or {Crowed} (kr[=o]d); p. p. {Crowed} ({Crown} (kr[=o]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowing}.] [AS. cr[=a]wan; akin to D. kraijen, G. kr[aum]hen, cf. Lith. groti to croak. [root]24. Cf. {Crake}.] 1.… …
13cock — I. /kɒk / (say kok) noun 1. a male chicken. 2. the male of any bird, especially of the gallinaceous kind. 3. Obsolete the crowing of the cock: they were up at first cock. 4. a leader; chief person; ruling spirit. 5. a device for permitting or… …
14cock — I UK [kɒk] / US [kɑk] noun [countable] Word forms cock : singular cock plural cocks 1) a) an adult male chicken. The noise that a cock makes is called crowing. The usual American word is rooster. b) an adult male bird of any kind a cock pheasant… …
15cock — cock1 cocklike, adj. /kok/, n. 1. a male chicken; rooster. 2. the male of any bird, esp. of the gallinaceous kind. 3. Also called stopcock. a hand operated valve or faucet, esp. one opened or closed by rotating a cylindrical or tapered plug… …
16crowing area — noun or crowing ground or crowing territory : the mating site selected and defended by a cock pheasant compare territoriality …
17cock — I. noun Etymology: Middle English cok, from Old English cocc, of imitative origin Date: before 12th century 1. a. the adult male of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) b. the male of birds other than the domestic chicken c. woodcock d. archaic… …
18cock-a-doodle-doo — /kok euh doohd l dooh /, interj., n., pl. cock a doodle doos, v., cock a doodle dooed, cock a doodle dooing. interj. 1. (used as a conventionalized expression to suggest the crowing of a rooster, as in stories for children.) n. 2. the loud crow… …
19cock-a-doodle-doo — /ˌkɒk ə dudl ˈdu/ (say .kok uh doohdl dooh) noun (plural cock a doodle doos) 1. the sound of the crowing of a cock. –verb (i) (cock a doodle dooed, cock a doodle dooing) 2. to crow …
20cock-a-hoop — adj. & adv. adj. exultant; crowing boastfully. adv. exultantly. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. in phr. set cock a hoop denoting some action preliminary to hard drinking …
