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cockcrowing

cockcrowing noun: the crowing sound of a cock.

Noun

cockcrowing (countable and uncountable, plural cockcrowings)

  1. The crowing sound of a cock.
    • We might have had hearts in our cradles; but, as I don't pretend to remember mine, I cannot say. Perhaps at sixteen, too, there is a sort of imagination of one; but it is a phantom which flits at the cockcrowing of reality.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Season”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 91-92
  2. cockcrow; daybreak

Forms of cockcrowing

pluralcockcrowings

Origin of cockcrowing

From Middle English cok crowynge; equivalent to cock + crowing.

Questions about cockcrowing

What does cockcrowing mean?
Cockcrowing means the crowing sound of a cock.
What part of speech is cockcrowing?
Cockcrowing is a noun.
What is the plural of cockcrowing?
The plural of cockcrowing is cockcrowings.

Words near cockcrowing in the dictionary

  1. Cockcroft-Walton generators
  2. Cockcrofts
  3. cockcrow
  4. cockcrower
  5. cockcrowers
  6. cockcrowing
  7. cockcrowings
  8. cockcrows
  9. cocke
  10. Cocke County
  11. cocked

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