cock

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒk/ (General American) IPA(key): /kɑk/ Homophone: caulk (cot–caught merger) Rhymes: -ɒk === Etymology 1 === From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325. ==== Noun ==== cock (countable and uncountable, plural cocks) A male bird, especially: Hyponyms: peacock, turkeycock, stag A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). a. 1398, John Trevisa, transl. Bartholomeus Anglicus as De Proprietatibus Rerum (MS BL Add. 27944), Vol. I, p. 628: A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice. A cock pigeon. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism. (colloquial, vulgar) A penis. Alternative form: cawk (curling) The circle at the end of the rink. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle. (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud. (UK, slang, obsolete) An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers. quoted in 2018, Stephen Carver, The 19th Century Underworld: Crime, Controversy & Corruption (page 138) This title ['Death Hunter'] refers not only to his vending accounts of all the murders that become topics of public conversation, but to his being a 'murderer' on his own account, as in the sale of 'cocks' mentioned incidentally in this narrative. If the truth be saleable , a running patterer prefers selling the truth […] (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow. Hyponym: dick A boastful tilt of one's head or hat. (informal) Shuttlecock. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. (dated, often humorous) A chief person; a leader or master. (obsolete) A leading thing. 1672 (original), 1776 (printed), Andrew Marvell, The Works of Andrew Marvell, page 154: 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, […] The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. 1842 (published 1856), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems [...], page 334: And here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout. Synonyms: cockfish, (US) buck Coordinate terms: hen, henfish The style or gnomon of a sundial. The indicator of a balance. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. ===== Usage notes ===== As with schlong, the slang term cock often suggests a larger size than the less commonly used synonym dick, and it appears less frequently than dick in both childish speech and formal contexts. ===== Synonyms ===== (male bird): cockbird (male chicken): rooster (penis): see Thesaurus:penis ===== Hyponyms ===== (valve): bibb, bibcock, seacock, sillcock, stopcock ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== cockerel ===== Descendants ===== → Irish: coca Sranan Tongo: kaka Tok Pisin: kok → Thai: ก๊อก (gɔ́k, “tap”) → Lao: ກ໊ອກ (kǭk, “tap”) ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== cock (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked) (ambitransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired. (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted. (transitive) To erect; to turn up. (UK, Ireland, transitive, slang) 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." (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully. (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation. (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing. (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Interjection ==== cock (UK, Ireland, slang) Expression of annoyance. ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== cock and bull story === Etymology 2 === From Middle English cokke, cock, cok, from Old English *cocc (“heap, pile”, attested in place names), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“mass, bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”). Cognate with dialectal German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), Norman coque (“small haystack”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”). ==== Noun ==== cock (plural cocks) A small conical pile of hay or grass. Hyponyms: grass-cock, hay-cock Coordinate term: staddle Near-synonyms: rick, stook, shock ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Irish: coca ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== cock (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked) (transitive) To form into piles. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === Uncertain. Some authors speculate it derives from cockle, a yonic fertility symbol, others suggested it entered Southern US vernacular during the period of French rule (of Louisiana) from Cajun French coquille (“shell”) (itself the source of cockle), which in 18th and 19th century slang meant the vulva. ==== Noun ==== cock (plural cocks) (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina. [since at least the 1920s; less common after the 1960s] c. 1920-1960, Rufus George Perryman (Speckled Red), quoted by Elijah Wald, The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama: Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear, Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair. ==== References ==== === Etymology 4 === from Middle English cok, from Old French coque (“a type of small boat”), from child-talk coco ('egg'). ==== Noun ==== cock (plural cocks) Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat. === Etymology 5 === ==== Proper noun ==== cock (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths. ==== References ==== “cock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Middle English == === Noun === cock alternative form of cok