Where does cockscrow come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

cockscrow

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"What a goodly noise they kept, what a flapping of their wings, and a jerking of their tails, as they stood right up and tried with a whistling in their throats to imitate a cockscrow!"

From Middle English cokkes crowe; equivalent to cock + -s- + crow.

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