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cockcrow

noun

Etymology

From Middle English cok crowe (also as cokkes crowe), equivalent to cock + crow. Likely a suppletive variation of Old English hancrǣd (“cockcrow, dawn”, literally “cock-crowing”), from hana (“cock, rooster”) + crǣd (“crowing”).

  1. derived from hancrǣd — “cockcrow, dawn”
  2. inherited from cok crowe

Definitions

  1. The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard

    The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light

    • I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.

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