Definitions for cock-and-bull-story

cock-and-bull-story cock-and-bull story

Spelling: [kok-uh n-boo l]
IPA: /ˈkɒk ənˈbʊl/

Cock-And-Bull-Story is a 19 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 3012 anagrams from letters in cock-and-bull-story (---abccdkllnoorstuy).

Definitions for cock-and-bull-story

noun

  1. an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth:

Origin of cock-and-bull-story

First recorded in 1600-10; probably with orig. reference to some fable in which a cock and bull figure

Examples for cock-and-bull-story

Think you we are all fools to believe in your cock-and-bull story?

What cock-and-bull story have you got hold of now, I wonder?

And pray, whom do you expect to delude with this cock-and-bull story?

The old man's voice: "Where did you get hold of that cock-and-bull story?"

So you came all the way up here to tell me this cock-and-bull story!

"And I suppose yours was a cock-and-bull story, too," he said.

Here, what do you mean by that cock-and-bull story, Dick Dellow?

Has some woman been turning up with a cock-and-bull story of being my wife?

"It's no cock-and-bull story you'll find it," asserted the Irishman.

If it hadn't been for his cock-and-bull story we shouldn't ha' done what we did.

Word Value for cock-and-bull-story
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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