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cockadoodling

cockadoodling is the present participle and gerund of cockadoodle.

Meaning of cockadoodle

Verb

cockadoodle (third-person singular simple present cockadoodles, present participle cockadoodling, simple past and past participle cockadoodled)

  1. The crow of a cock; cock-a-doodle-doo.
    • COCKADOODLE, to crow like a cock (onomatopœous). The peacocks, with their spotted coates and affrighting voyces, for heralds, the prickt and enlisted; and the cockadoodling cocks for their trumpeters.—Nashe, Lenten Stuff (Harl. Misc., vi. 170).1881, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Supplementary English Glossary, G. Bell and Sons, page 132

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Noun

cockadoodling (uncountable)

  1. The crow of a cock.

Questions about cockadoodling

What does cockadoodling mean?
Cockadoodling means the crow of a cock.
What is cockadoodling the present participle and gerund of?
Cockadoodling is the present participle and gerund of cockadoodle.
What part of speech is cockadoodling?
Cockadoodling is a noun.

Words near cockadoodling in the dictionary

  1. cockadoodledo
  2. cockadoodledoo
  3. cockadoodledoos
  4. cockadoodledos
  5. cockadoodles
  6. cockadoodling
  7. cockaholic
  8. cockaholics
  9. cockahoop
  10. Cockaigne
  11. cockal

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