cockfight
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cockfight
- /ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/ UK
- /ˈkɑkˌfaɪt/ US
Where it comes from
From cock + fight.
noun cockfights
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A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the cock-fight
Similar: cockmatch
verb cockfights · cockfighting · cockfought
- To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event. I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.
Translations
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noun contest
| Español | pelea de gallos |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 투계 tugye, 닭싸움 dakssaum |
| 日本語 | 闘鶏 tōkei, 蹴合 keai, 鶏合 |
| 中文 | 鬥雞 /斗鸡 dòujī |
| Português | rinha, rinha de galo |
| Français | combat de coqs |
| Deutsch | Hahnenkampf |
| Italiano | combattimento tra galli, combattimento fra galli |
| Русский | петуши́ный бой petušínyj boj, бойцовый петух bojcovyj petux |
| العربية | مصارعة الديوك |
| עברית | קרב תרנגולים |
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