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cock-sparrows

cock-sparrows is the plural of cock-sparrow.

Meaning of cock-sparrow

Noun

cock-sparrow (plural cock-sparrows)

  1. A male sparrow.
  2. A quarrelsome, cocky person
    • Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries.1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque

Questions about cock-sparrows

What is cock-sparrows the plural of?
Cock-sparrows is the plural of cock-sparrow.

Words near cock-sparrows in the dictionary

  1. cock-root
  2. cock-shut-time
  3. cock-socket
  4. cock-sockets
  5. cock-sparrow
  6. cock-sparrows
  7. cock-stand
  8. cock-stands
  9. cock-sucka
  10. cock-suckah
  11. cock-sucker

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