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cocking

/kˈɑkɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

Syllables
cock-ing
IPA
/kˈɑkɪŋ/
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of cock

noun

The hunting of gamecocks.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

noun

Cockfighting.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

A boastful tilt; the act of cocking something.

Countable; Uncountable

adj

Offensive or worthless

name

A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8717).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Old English.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From cock (“a male bird, esp. a rooster; many derivatives, incl. penis”) + -ing (forming participles).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

cockings (plural)

Phrases

cocking of a snook cocker spaniel

Frequently Paired Words

cocker cocker spaniel

Synonyms

fucking no good shitstained bastardly blown cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish

Rhymes With

blocking shocking knocking locking rocking mocking stocking docking unlocking clocking flocking hocking

Questions

How do you pronounce cocking?
The recorded pronunciation is /kˈɑkɪŋ/.
What does cocking mean?
present participle and gerund of cock
Where does cocking come from?
It is traced to Old English.

How to pronounce cocking

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