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acock

adv
/əˈkɒk/

Etymology

From a- + cock.

  1. derived from *gew-✻ — “to bend, curve, arch”
  2. inherited from *kukkaz✻ — “mass, bulge, swelling”
  3. inherited from *kokk✻
  4. inherited from *cocc✻ — “heap, pile”
  5. inherited from cokke
  6. prefixed as acock — “a + cock”

Definitions

  1. In a cocked or turned-up fashion.

  2. Defiantly.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

acockbill

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA