cock
/kɑk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.23 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
British usage; Countable; Derogatory; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?"
- "My cock is much bigger than yours / My cock can walk right through the door / With a feeling so pure / It's got you screaming back for more"
- "[…] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said."
- "[…] in 1803; my eyes transmogrified […]; my nose had lost its pretty cock, and had grown elegantly hooked; and […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *kukkaz Proto-West Germanic *kokk Old English cocc Middle English cok English cock From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɑk/
- British English: /kɒk/