Definitions for cochins

cochins co·chin

Spelling: [koh-chin, koch-in]
IPA: /ˈkoʊ tʃɪn, ˈkɒtʃ ɪn/

Cochins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in cochins (cchinos).

Definitions for cochins

noun

  1. one of an Asian breed of chickens, resembling the Brahma but slightly smaller.
  2. a former state in SW India; merged with Travancore 1949; a part of Kerala state since 1956.
  3. former name of Kochi.

Origin of cochins

First recorded in 1850-55; short for Cochin-China fowl

Examples for cochins

It was the 2d of December, and we too were now off the coast of cochin China.

The largest are the tall cochin Chinas; the smallest the pert little Bantams.

We pass from Travancore into the little State of cochin, on the north.

We passed cochin in the course of the day, but not near enough to see much of it.

French cochin China occupies the most southern portion of the peninsula.

Finally, as in the case of cochin, apartments were assigned to him in the Louvre.

My opinion is divided between the south down and the cochin china.

Their temple at cochin is one of the richest in the whole State.

She was taken back to Columbo, and thence to cochin, where she hove down.

She was engaged in driving home a cochin China hen and her chickens.

Word Value for cochins
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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