cock

noun

1. 1

   A male bird, especially: A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).

   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.

2. 2

   A male bird, especially: A cock pigeon.

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.

5. 5

   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

6. 6

   The circle at the end of the rink.

7. 7

   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, […]

8. 8

   slangA stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.

9. 9

   slangNonsense; 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 […]

10. 10

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

    The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.

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

    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 […]

11. 11

    slangA 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.”

12. 12

    A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.

13. 13

    informalShuttlecock.

14. 14

    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!

15. 15

    datedA chief person; a leader or master.

16. 16

    obsoleteA 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.

    She is a widow, don, consider that; Has buried one was thought a Hercules, Two cubits taller, and a man that cut Three inches deeper in the say, than I; Consider that too : She may be cock o'twenty, nay, for aught know, she is immortal.

17. 17

    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.

18. 18

    A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.

    As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.

19. 19

    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.

20. 20

    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.

21. 21

    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

verb

1. 1

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

   Cocked, fired, and missed his man.

2. 2

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

   In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.

3. 3

   To erect; to turn up.

   Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.

   Dick would cock his nose in scorn.

4. 4

   slangTo 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."

5. 5

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

   He cocked his hat jauntily.

6. 6

   datedTo 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.

7. 7

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

8. 8

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

interjection

1. 1

   slangExpression of annoyance.

   [object Object]

noun

1. 1

   A small conical pile of hay or grass.

   Near-synonyms: rick, stook, shock

   The farmhands stack the hay into cocks.

verb

1. 1

   To form into piles.

   Under the cocked hay.

noun

1. 1

   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.

   I stuck my fist up in her cock, she didn't budge or move it.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of cock-boatAbbreviation 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.

proper noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

   By cock and pie.

Forms

plural

cocks

past tense

cocked

past participle

cocked

present participle

cocking

third person singular

cocks