Cock
61cock — 1. Fowl. Moa kāne, ouo; moa mahi (fighting); moa kākala (with sharp spurs). See saying, pūkō. ♦ Sharp spurs of a fighting cock, kākala, kākala pī ka wai ♦ To act the part of a cock, momoa, moamoa. ♦ When the cock s spur is sharp and… …
62cock — [OE] The word cock is probably ultimately of onomatopoeic origin, imitative of the male fowl’s call (like the lengthier English cock adoodle doo [16], French coquerico, and German kikeriki). Beyond that it is difficult to go with any certainty;… …
63cock-up — n British a mistake, blunder or shambles. Many different sources have been posited for this expression; cock may refer to some obscure piece of professional jargon (it occurs in the vocabularies of printers, hunters, brewers and others), to the… …
64cock-up — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms cock up : singular cock up plural cock ups British impolite a bad mistake, or something that has been done very badly …
65cock — [kɒk] noun [C] I a male bird, especially a male chicken • cock and bull story a story that is silly and difficult to believe[/ex] II verb [T] cock [kɒk] to raise a part of your body, or to move it to one side • cock sth up …
66cock — 1. Penis. 2. Nonsense. Also a load of cock (but less polite than cobblers). 3. Affectionate term of address. Also old cock( sparrow). 4. all to cock adj. Bungled. In a state of confusion …
67cock — see every cock will crow upon his own dunghill there’s many a good cock come out of a tattered bag the robin and the wren are God’s cock and hen; the martin and the swallow are God’s mate and marrow …
68cock — 1. noun /kɑk,kɔːk,kɒk/ a) A male bird, especially a domestic fowl. All right, cock b) Male chicken or other gallinaceous bird. The farmhands stack the hay into cocks …
69Cock — 1. (offensive) penis; 2. (derogatory and offensive) despicable male; 3. (Tasmania) term of address for a mate or friend (in Middle English (15th C.) this meaning was a metaphorical extension of cock meaning rooster ; cf. the 14th C. pilkoc ,… …
70cock up — PHRASAL VERB If you cock something up, you ruin it by doing something wrong. [BRIT, INFORMAL, RUDE] → See also cock up [V n P] Seems like I ve cocked it up, Egan said... [V P n (not pron)] They ve cocked up the address …
