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cock-a-whoop

cock-a-whoop is the archaic form of cock-a-hoop.

Meaning of cock-a-hoop

Adjective

cock-a-hoop (comparative more cock-a-hoop, superlative most cock-a-hoop)

  1. Exultant, very happy, triumphant.
    • I have to say I felt pretty cock-a-hoop straight after my epidural but, some hours later, my head felt as though someone large and heavy had been sitting on it.2008, Lucy Cavendish, The Guardian, G2, 9th January 2008, p. 3

Forms of cock-a-whoop

comparativemore cock-a-whoop
superlativemost cock-a-whoop

Questions about cock-a-whoop

What is cock-a-whoop the archaic form of?
Cock-a-whoop is the archaic form of cock-a-hoop.

Words near cock-a-whoop in the dictionary

  1. cock-a-doodle-doos
  2. cock-a-doodle-dos
  3. cock-a-hoop
  4. cock-a-leekie
  5. cock-a-leekies
  6. cock-a-whoop
  7. cock-and-ball stories
  8. cock-and-ball story
  9. cock-and-bull stories
  10. cock-and-bull story
  11. cock-and-hen club

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cock-a-whoop (page history and authors); cock-a-hoop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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