Definitions for Cock

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Cock cock

Spelling: [kok]

IPA: /kɒk/

Cock is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in Cock (ccko).

Definitions for Cock

noun

1. a male chicken; rooster.
2. the male of any bird, especially of the gallinaceous kind.
3. Also called stopcock. a hand-operated valve or faucet, especially one opened or closed by rotating a cylindrical or tapered plug having part of the passage pierced through it from side to side.
4. the part of the lock that, by its fall or action, causes the discharge; hammer. the position into which the cock, or hammer, is brought by being drawn partly or completely back, preparatory to firing.
5. Slang: Vulgar. penis. sexual relations with a man.
6. a weathercock.
7. aleader; chief person.
8. Chiefly British Informal. pal; chum.
9. British Slang. nonsense.
10. Horology. a bracketlike plate holding bearings, supported at one end only. Compare bridge1 (def 17).
11. Archaic. the time of the crowing of the cock; early in the morning; cockcrow.
12. the act of turning the head, a hat, etc., up or to one side in a jaunty or significant way.
13. the position of anything thus placed.
14. a conical pile of hay, dung, etc.

Idioms

1. cock a snook. snook2 (def 2).

verb (used with object)

1. to pull back and set the cock, or hammer, of (a firearm) preparatory to firing.
2. to draw back in preparation for throwing or hitting:
3. to set (a camera shutter or other mechanism) for tripping. Compare trip1 (def 28).
4. to set or turn up or to one side, often in an assertive, jaunty, or significant manner:
5. to pile (hay, dung, etc.) in cocks.

verb (used without object)

1. to cock the firing mechanism of a firearm.
2. to stand or stick up conspicuously.
3. Scot. and New England. to strut; swagger; put on airs of importance.

Origin of Cock

before 900; Middle English cock, Old English cocc; cognate with Old Norse kokkr; orig. imitative

Examples for Cock

It cannot keep out the arrow of the cock's cry, and the heart that pierces is no shadow.

They were often based on nursery rhymes, like ­­­The Death & Burial of cock Robin or The Babes in the Wood.

But Horatio—why does the ghost not answer him ere the time of the cock is come?

Methinks that Gascony is too small a cock to crow so lustily.

He stroked his cock, while I continued to lave his balls, taking one and then the other in my mouth.

His assistant then turned the cock and shut off the gas from the cylinder.

I was standing there in my cock sock thing with it all hanging out, because it felt so fine.

Three times,” he says angrily, “thou shalt betray me ere the cock crows.

He had his cock out, and he had my head pushed close enough to it — I just remember looking at his stomach hair.

He made of himself but a cock, set for a while on the world's heap to scratch and pick.