cock

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A male bird, especially

   A male bird, especially:

2. 2

   A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.

   • 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.
3. 3

   The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.

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   1. 4

      A penis.

      • 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
   2. 5

      The circle at the end of the rink.

   3. 6

      The state of being cocked

      The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.

      • […] 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, […]
   4. 7

      A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.

   5. 8

      Nonsense

      Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.

      • "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 […]
   6. 9

      An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.

      • CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE: COMPRISING "COCKS," OR "CATCHPENNIES," A Large and Curious Assortment of STREET DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC STORIES IN PROSE AND VERSE, […]
   7. 10

      A man

      A man; a fellow.

      • 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.”
   8. 11

      A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.

   9. 12

      Shuttlecock.

   10. 13

       A vane in the shape of a cock

       A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.

       • Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
   11. 14

       A chief person

       A chief person; a leader or master.

   12. 15

       A leading thing.

       • 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.
   13. 16

       The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning

       The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.

       • 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.
   14. 17

       A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.

   15. 18

       The style or gnomon of a sundial.

       • Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.
   16. 19

       The indicator of a balance.

       • The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.
   17. 20

       The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

       • A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw
   18. 21

       To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow

       To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.

       • Cocked, fired, and missed his man.
   19. 22

       To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.

       • In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
   20. 23

       To erect

       To erect; to turn up.

       • Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.
       • Dick would cock his nose in scorn.
   21. 24

       To copulate with

       To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.

       • Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s "Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."
   22. 25

       To turn or twist something upwards or to one side

       To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.

       • He cocked his hat jauntily.
   23. 26

       To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or…

       To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.

       • The Sentry, to this question, said nothing in reply; / But first he cocked his rifle, and then he cocked his eye.
   24. 27

       To strut

       To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.

   25. 28

       To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).

   26. 29

       Expression of annoyance.

   27. 30

       A small conical pile of hay or grass.

       • Near-synonyms: rick, stook, shock
       • The farmhands stack the hay into cocks.
   28. 31

       To form into piles.

       • Under the cocked hay.
   29. 32

       Vulva, vagina.

       • Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear, Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.
       • My back is made of whalebone And my cock is made of brass
       • The dog come a-trottin' and the dog come a-lopin' A purty little gal with her cock wide open.
   30. 33

       Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.

       • Yond tall anchoring bark [appears] / Diminished to her cock; her cock, a buoy / Almost too small for sight.
   31. 34

       A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

       • By cock and pie.
   32. 35

       A surname.

The neighborhood

• synonymcockbirdmale bird
• synonymroostermale chicken
• neighborcockerel