cock

Noun (1)

cock (countable and uncountable, plural cocks)

1. A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
   • A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice.a. 1398, John Trevisa, transl. Bartholomeus Anglicus as De Proprietatibus Rerum (MS BL Add. 27944), Vol. I, p. 628
2. A cock pigeon.
3. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
   • The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […], from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.1864, Robert Niccol, Essay on Sugar, and General Treatise on Sugar Refining
4. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
5. (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
   • She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 356
   • My cock is much bigger than yours / My cock can walk right through the door / With a feeling so pure / It's got you screaming back for more2005, System of a Down, “Cigaro”

   Synonyms:

   penis

6. The circle at the end of the rink.
7. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
   • […] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said.1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co....
   • […] in 1803; my eyes transmogrified […]; my nose had lost its pretty cock, and had grown elegantly hooked; and […]1843, James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Fraser's Magazine, page 694
8. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
9. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
   • "You used to talk an awful lot of cock."1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin
   • That Hitler's armies can't be beat is just a load of cock, / For Marshal Timoshenko's boys are pissing through von Bock […]2013, M. J. Trow, Swearing Like A Trooper: Rude Slang of World War Two
10. (UK, obsolete, slang) An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.
    • The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
    • CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE: COMPRISING "COCKS," OR "CATCHPENNIES," A Large and Curious Assortment of STREET DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC STORIES IN PROSE AND VERSE, […]1886, Charles Hindley, The History of the Catnach Press, page xxiii
11. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, especially, slang) A man; a fellow.
    • All right, cock?
    • Now, in coming down here, I journeyed part of the way with a jolly old cock, who shed a tear with me every time the coach stopped […]1848, Thomas Frost, Paul the Poacher, page 118
12. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.

Verb (1)

cock (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked)

1. (ambitransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
   • Cocked, fired, and missed his man.1812, Lord Byron, The Waltz
2. (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
   • In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
3. (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
   • Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.1720, John Gay, Thursday: Or, The Spell
   • Dick would cock his nose in scorn.1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue Between Mad Mullinix and Timothy
4. (Ireland, UK, slang, transitive) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
   • Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s
     "Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."
5. (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
   • He cocked his hat jauntily.
6. (dated, intransitive) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
   • The Sentry, to this question, said nothing in reply; / But first he cocked his rifle, and then he cocked his eye.1873, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volumes 64-65, page 36
7. (dated, intransitive) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).

Interjection

1. (Ireland, UK, slang) Expression of annoyance.

Noun (2)

cock (plural cocks)

1. A small conical pile of hay or grass.
   • Near-synonyms: rick, stook, shock
   • The farmhands stack the hay into cocks.

   Synonyms:

   rick, stook, shock

Verb (2)

cock (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked)

1. (transitive) To form into piles.
   • Under the cocked hay.1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

Noun (3)

cock (plural cocks)

1. (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated, and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
   • Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear,
     Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.c. 1920-1960, Rufus George Perryman (Speckled Red), quoted by Elijah Wald, The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama
   • My back is made of whalebone
     And my cock is made of brass1935 March 5, “Shave 'Em Dry, No. 2”, in Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops, performed by Lucille Bogan, published 1991, track 6

Proper noun (1)

cock

1. (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
   • By cock and pie.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Cock

Cock

1. A surname.