Dictionary Definition
cock
Noun
3 the part of a gunlock that strikes the
percussion cap when the trigger is pulled [syn: hammer]
4 adult male chicken [syn: rooster]
5 adult male bird
Verb
1 tilt or slant to one side; "cock one's
head"
2 set the trigger of a firearm back for
firing
3 to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an
attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a
hen house" [syn: swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- (US) /kɒk/, /kɔːk/
- (US) /kQk/, /kO:k/
- (British) /kɒk/
- (British) /kQk/
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- Rhymes: -ɒk
Homophones
- caulk (US)
Noun
- A male bird, especially a domestic fowl.
- Male chicken.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- The hammer of a firearm.
- slang vulgar The penis.
- The circle at the end of the rink.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- A stupid person.
- An informal term of address.
- All right, cock
Derived terms
rel-top Derived terms- cockfight
- cockfighting
- cockpit
- cocksure
- cocktease
- cockteaser
- fighting cock
- gamecock
- weathercock
- woodcock
Translations
any male bird
male chicken
- Afrikaans: haan
- Albanian: kokosh
- Basque: oilar
- Czech: kohout
- Danish: kok, hane
- Dutch: haan
- Ewe: koklotsu
- Finnish: kukko
- French: coq
- German: Hahn
- Greek: κόκορας, πετεινός, αλέκτορας
- Hebrew: תרנגול (tarnegol)
- Icelandic: hani
- Indonesian: jago
- Interlingua: gallo
- Irish: coileach
- Italian: gallo
- Latvian: gailis
- Maltese: serduq
- Norwegian: hane
- Ojibwe: naabese
- Polish: kogut
- Portuguese: galo
- Romanian: cocoş
- Russian: петух
- Sicilian: jaddu
- Slovak: kohút
- Slovene: petelin
- Spanish: gallo
- Swedish: tupp
- Turkish: horoz
- West Frisian: hoanne
slang for penis
- Afrikaans: piel
- Albanian: kar
- Arabic: (zibb)
- Armenian: կլիր (klir)
- Cantonese: 屌/𨳒 [⿵門小] (diu2), 𨳊 [⿵門九] (gau1), 𨶙 [⿵門能] (lan2), 𨳍 [⿵門七] (cat6)
- Catalan: carall
- Danish: pik
- Dutch: lul, pik
- Finnish: kyrpä, kulli
- French: queue, bite
- German: Schwanz
- Greek: ψωλή (psolí) (slang, obscene), καυλί (kavlí) (slang, obscene), πούτσος (pútsos) (obscene), πούτσα (pútsa) (obscene), παπάρι (papári) (slang), παπάρα (papára) (slang)
- Hebrew: זין (zain)
- Icelandic: typpi, drjóli, göndull
- Interlingua: pene
- Irish: bod
- Italian: cazzo
- Japanese: チンコ
- Latvian: daikts
- Maltese: żobb
- Norwegian: kuk/kukk , pikk
- Ojibwe: niinag (inanimate, my penis)
- Persian: (kir)
- Polish: chuj, fiut, kutas, kutafon, pała
- Portuguese: pinto
- Romanian: pulă, miel
- Russian: хуй (xuj)
- Sicilian: minchia
- Slovak: kokot
- Slovene: kurec, kurac
- Spanish: polla, verga
- Swedish: kuk
- Turkish: yarak
- West Frisian: lul
- ttbc Albanian: gjel , kaposh
- ttbc Cantonese: 雞公 (gai1 gung1)
- ttbc Catalan: ocellet
- ttbc Esperanto: koko
- ttbc Hungarian: kakas
- ttbc Spanish: cimbrel , nabo , pirula , chupa-chups , pilila , minga , manubrio , cipote , carajo , pito , picha , tranca , sable
Verb
See also
Extensive Definition
Cock may refer to:
In valves:
- A type of tap, faucet or valve
- Steam cock, a drain valve on a steam engine cylinder
- Bibcock, a small type of valve
- Sample cock, a small valve fitted in breweries and other process industries to check the product during manufacture
- Stopcock, a valve used to restrict or isolate the flow of a liquid or gas through a pipe
- Petcock, a small valve, primarily for draining liquid or releasing pressure from a vessel
- Ballcock, a mechanism for filling water tanks
In clocks:
- A part of a clock or watch used to support an outrigger bearing for a gear or lever
- Balance cock, supports the balance wheel in a watch
- Fly cock, supports the fly on a bracket clock
- Back Cock, supports the pendulum and pallet arbor
In other:
- To cock, to prepare the hammer of a firearm for firing
- Shuttlecock, a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton
- Cock, the NATO reporting name of the Antonov An-22
- A Cocktail, a style of mixed drink
See also:
- Cock (surname)
- Cocks (surname)
- Cockpit, the area usually nearer the front of a piloted aircraft from which a pilot controls the aircraft.
- Caulk, a homophone in some North American dialects of English
- Woodcock (disambiguation)
cock in German: Cock
cock in Simple English: Cock
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bantam,
anemograph, anemometer, anemometrograph,
anemoscope, anthill, backslide, ball cock, ball
valve, baloney, bank, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard
fowl, biddy, bilge, billy, billy goat, boar, bosh, boss, broiler, brooder, broody hen,
bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, bung, bunghole, bunkum, capital, capon, chanticleer, charge, check valve, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, chief, chieftain, cockerel, cork, crap, detonate, discharge, dog, domestic fowl, dominant, drain cock, drake, draw cock, drift, drop, duck, duckling, dune, dunghill fowl, eject, embankment, entire, entire horse, fall
astern, fall behind, faucet, fell, fire, fire off, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gate, get behind, get up steam, go
backwards, go behind, gobbler, goose, gosling, guff, guinea cock, guinea fowl,
guinea hen, gun, gun for,
hart, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, he-goat, head, headman, heap, hen, hen turkey, hierarch, hill, hit, hokum, honcho, hydrant, jerk back, lapse, leader, let fly, let off,
lid, load, lose ground, main, major, mass, master, molehill, mound, mountain, mow, needle valve, number one,
outstanding,
partlet, peacock, peg, pelt, pepper, petcock, pick off, pile, pin, pistol, plug, pontificate, pot, potshoot, potshot, poulard, poult, poultry, predominant, preeminent, prime, principal, pull back, pullet, pyramid, ram, recede, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, return, revert, rick, riddle, roaster, rooster, rot, ruck, sea cock, set, setting hen, shock, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, slip
back, snipe, snowdrift, spigot, spike, spile, spill, spring chicken, stack, stag, stallion, steam up, steer, stewing chicken, stop, stopcock, stopgap, stopper, stopple, stot, strike, stud, studhorse, swagger, swank, swell, take a potshot, tap, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse,
torpedo, tup, turkey, turkey gobbler,
turkey-cock, valve,
valvula, valvule, vane, warm up, weather vane,
weathercock,
wether, wind, wind cone, wind indicator,
wind sock, wind up, wind vane, wind-speed
indicator