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cock sparrow

cock sparrow is the alternative form 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

Forms of cock sparrow

pluralcock sparrows

Questions about cock sparrow

What is cock sparrow the alternative form of?
Cock sparrow is the alternative form of cock-sparrow.

Words near cock sparrow in the dictionary

  1. cock snot
  2. cock sock
  3. cock socket
  4. cock sockets
  5. cock socks
  6. cock sparrow
  7. cock sucka
  8. cock suckah
  9. cock sucker
  10. cock suckers
  11. cock tease

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