Where does cockcrowing come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

cockcrowing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Uncountable

"We might have had hearts in our cradles; but, as I don't pretend to remember mine, I cannot say. Perhaps at sixteen, too, there is a sort of imagination of one; but it is a phantom which flits at the cockcrowing of reality."

From Middle English cok crowynge; equivalent to cock + crowing.

cockcrowings (plural)

cockcrow cockscrow

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