cock-crow

  • 21Cock-A-Doodle Deux Deux — The Inspector series Directed by Robert McKimson …

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  • 22crow — verb, meaning ‘to make the sound of a cock’ and ‘to boast’, has past forms crowed (more usual) and crew (only in the first meaning, often in allusion to the cock in the New Testament account of Christ s betrayal). The past participle is always… …

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  • 23cock-a-doo|dle — «KOK uh DOO duhl», intransitive verb, dled, dling. to crow; cock a doodle doo: »One of those egotistical…types who cock a doodle a great deal (New Yorker) …

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  • 24crow — [v] brag, exult babble, blow, bluster, boast, cackle, caw, cock a doodle doo*, cry, flourish, gas, gloat, glory in, gurgle, jubilate, mouth, prate, puff, rodomontade, squawk, strut, swagger, triumph, vaunt, whoop; concept 49 …

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  • 25cock-a-doodle-doo — [käk΄ə do͞od΄ l do͞o′] n. [echoic] a conventionalized term for the crow of a rooster …

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  • 26cock-a-doo|dle-doo — «KOK uh DOO duhl DOO», interjection, noun, verb. –interj., n. an imitation of the loud cry of a rooster. –v.i. to make this sound; crow …

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  • 27cock|a|lo|rum — «KOK uh LR uhm, LOHR », noun. 1. a self important little man. 2. boastful talk. ╂[pretended classical derivation from cock1; perhaps influenced by Dutch kockeloeren to crow] …

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  • 28crow|er — «KROH uhr», noun. 1. a cock that crows. 2. a person that crows …

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  • 29crow — I. /kroʊ / (say kroh) noun 1. either of two large, lustrous black Australian birds of the genus Corvus, having a characteristic harsh staccato call and shorter neck feathers than the raven: a. the Torresian crow, C. orru, found in Indonesia, New… …

  • 30cock — n. rooster (esp. BE) 1) cocks cock a doodle doo, crow water tap 2) a ball cock opening of a water tap 3) full cock (a water tap turned on full cock) * * * [kɒk] crow [ rooster ] (esp. BE) cocks cock a doodle doo [ water tap ] a ball cock [… …

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