cockfight
/ˈkɑkˌfaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
Example Sentences
- "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 did not seem to care whether his best birds won or lost."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑkˌfaɪt/
- British English: /ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/