cock

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from , probably of origin.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 "cock"; whence 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬. Reinforced by 🇨🇬, also of imitative origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound attested since 1325.

Noun

 * 1)  A male bird, especially:
 * 2)  A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken.
 * 3) A cock pigeon.
 * 4)  A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
 * 5) The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
 * 6)  A penis.
 * 7)  The circle at the end of the rink.
 * 8) The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
 * 9)  A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
 * 10)  Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
 * 11)   A man; a fellow.
 * 12) A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
 * 13)  Shuttlecock.
 * 14) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
 * 15)  A chief person; a leader or master.
 * 16)  A leading thing.
 * 17) * 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,
 * 1) The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
 * 2) * 1842 (published 1856), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems [...], page 334:
 * And here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight.
 * 1) A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
 * 2) The style or gnomon of a sundial.
 * 3) The indicator of a balance.
 * 4) The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
 * 1)  Shuttlecock.
 * 2) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
 * 3)  A chief person; a leader or master.
 * 4)  A leading thing.
 * 5) * 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,
 * 1) The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
 * 2) * 1842 (published 1856), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems [...], page 334:
 * And here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight.
 * 1) A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
 * 2) The style or gnomon of a sundial.
 * 3) The indicator of a balance.
 * 4) The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
 * 1) * 1842 (published 1856), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems [...], page 334:
 * And here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight.
 * 1) A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
 * 2) The style or gnomon of a sundial.
 * 3) The indicator of a balance.
 * 4) The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
 * 1) The style or gnomon of a sundial.
 * 2) The indicator of a balance.
 * 3) The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
 * 1) The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
 * 1) The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:penis
 * see Thesaurus:penis
 * see Thesaurus:penis

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: دكر
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: վարուժան
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian: мъжка птица
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: боргӏал
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, , fasankok
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: атякш
 * Esperanto: maskla birdo, virseksa birdo
 * Estonian: isaslind
 * Faroese: steggi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: αρσενικός φασιανός
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian: burung jantan,
 * Ingush: боргӏал
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 雄の鳥
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: gailis
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: għasfur
 * Maori: pīkaokao, tīkaokao
 * Ojibwe: naabese
 * Oromo: kormaa
 * Ottoman Turkish: خروس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ave-macho
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: coileach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мужјак
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ave macho
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: horaz
 * Udi: дадал
 * Udmurt: атас
 * Zazaki:


 * Catalan:
 * Danish: duerik
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: virkolombo, kolombiĉo
 * German:, , , , Taubenmännchen
 * Ido: kolombulo
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:
 * Volapük:


 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: тәте
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: hani
 * Finnish:, iskuvasara
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: מַקּוֹשׁ
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:, fusilhano
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: петле
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hane
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: yläkeno
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: kip zonder kop
 * French:, , , , , , , , , ,
 * Hungarian:, , , , , , , , ,
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Tamil:


 * French: ,
 * Italian:


 * Albanian: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Spanish:, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Verb

 * 1)  To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
 * 2)  To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
 * In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
 * 1)  To erect; to turn up.
 * 2)  To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
 * 3) * Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s
 * "Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."
 * 1)  To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
 * He cocked his hat jauntily.
 * 1)  To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
 * 2)  To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
 * 3)  To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).
 * 1)  To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
 * 2)  To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
 * 3)  To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).
 * 1)  To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).

Translations

 * Czech: natáhnout kohoutek
 * Danish: spænde hanen
 * Dutch: (de haan) spannen
 * Finnish:
 * French: armer le chien
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ikasa, buslugin


 * Finnish: virittyä
 * Russian:


 * Czech: ,
 * French:
 * Polish:, , nadstawić


 * Dutch:
 * French:, , , , , , , , , , ,
 * Hungarian:, , , , , , ,
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: nöken


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian:


 * Hausa:, ,  ,

Translations

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 * Hindi:
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 * Icelandic:
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 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Latin:
 * Slovak:
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 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology 2
. Some authors speculate it derives from, a yonic fertility symbol, others suggested it entered Southern US vernacular during the period of French rule (of Louisiana) from 🇨🇬 (itself the source of ), which in 18th and 19th century slang meant the vulva.

Noun

 * 1)  Vulva, vagina.
 * 2) * 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.

Etymology 3
From, , , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Hay-cock, a small conical pile of hay.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To form into piles.

Translations

 * Dutch:

Etymology 4
from, from , from child-talk coco ('egg').

Noun

 * 1)  a type of small boat.