Cock

noun cocks

1. countable, uncountable A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice.
2. countable, uncountable A cock pigeon.
3. countable, uncountable A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing. The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […], from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.
4. countable, uncountable The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
5. colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar A penis. She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?
6. countable, uncountable The circle at the end of the rink.
7. countable, uncountable The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle. […] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said.
8. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, slang A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
9. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, uncountable Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud. "You used to talk an awful lot of cock."
10. UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers. The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.
11. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, especially, slang A man; a fellow. All right, cock?
12. countable, uncountable A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
13. countable, informal, uncountable Shuttlecock.
14. countable, uncountable A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
15. countable, dated, humorous, often, uncountable A chief person; a leader or master.
16. countable, obsolete, uncountable A leading thing. The contrarye [side of a die] to this... was called Venus, or Cous, and yt was cocke, the beste that might be cast.
17. countable, uncountable The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock;
18. countable, uncountable A male fish, especially a salmon or trout. As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colo
19. countable, uncountable The style or gnomon of a sundial. Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.
20. countable, uncountable The indicator of a balance. The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.
21. countable, uncountable The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw

Similar: cockbird, rooster

verb cocks · cocking · cocked

1. ambitransitive To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired. Cocked, fired, and missed his man.
2. intransitive To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted. In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
3. transitive To erect; to turn up. Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.
4. Ireland, UK, slang, transitive To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy. Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s "Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."
5. transitive To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully. He cocked his hat jauntily.
6. dated, intransitive To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation. The Sentry, to this question, said nothing in reply; / But first he cocked his rifle, and then he cocked his eye.
7. dated, intransitive To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
8. obsolete, transitive To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).

interjection

1. Ireland, UK, slang Expression of annoyance.

noun cocks

1. A small conical pile of hay or grass. Near-synonyms: rick, stook, shock

verb cocks · cocking · cocked

1. transitive To form into piles. Under the cocked hay.

noun cocks

1. Southern US Vulva, vagina. Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear, Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.

noun cocks

1. abbreviation Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.cock-boat Yond tall anchoring bark [appears] / Diminished to her cock; her cock, a buoy / Almost too small for sight.

proper noun

1. obsolete A corruption of the word God, used in oaths. By cock and pie.

proper noun

1. A surname.