Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weathercock

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

Syllables: weath-er-cock
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.

noun

One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.

noun

A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.

Canadian usage; American usage

verb

To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.

Intransitive verb

verb

To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.

Intransitive verb

verb

To act as a weathercock for.

Transitive verb

Etymology

From Middle English wetharcoke, weþercok, wedercoc, wederkok, equivalent to weather + cock.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: wetharcoke

Usage

Inflected Forms

weathercocks (plural) weathercocks (present, singular) weathercocking (participle, present) weathercocked (participle, past) weathercocked (past)

Phrases

weather vane wind sock

Frequently Paired Words

weathervane weather vane windsock wind sock

Questions

What does weathercock mean?: A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
Where does weathercock come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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