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cockfighting

noun

Etymology

From Middle English cokfytyng, kokkysfythynge; equivalent to cock + fighting.

  1. inherited from cokfytyng

Definitions

  1. A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes…

    A gambling blood sport (illegal in most countries) in which two roosters have spikes placed on their feet and are made to fight each other, usually to the death.

  2. present participle and gerund of cockfight

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cockfighting. 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 cockfighting. 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 cockfighting

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