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cockcrowings

cockcrowings is the plural of cockcrowing.

Meaning of cockcrowing

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

Questions about cockcrowings

What is cockcrowings the plural of?
Cockcrowings is the plural of cockcrowing.

Words near cockcrowings in the dictionary

  1. Cockcrofts
  2. cockcrow
  3. cockcrower
  4. cockcrowers
  5. cockcrowing
  6. cockcrowings
  7. cockcrows
  8. cocke
  9. Cocke County
  10. cocked
  11. cocked a deaf 'un

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