cockfight

noun
/ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/UK/ˈkɑkˌfaɪt/US

Etymology

From cock + fight.

  1. derived from *peḱ-
  2. inherited from *fehtaną
  3. inherited from *fehtan
  4. inherited from feohtan
  5. inherited from fighten
  6. compounded as cockfight — “cock + fight

Definitions

  1. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs

  2. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a…

    To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.

    • I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cockfight. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cockfight. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at cockfight

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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