cockfight
/ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/US/ˈkɑkˌfaɪt/
cockfight noun: a contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs.
Noun
cockfight (plural cockfights)
- A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
- This was a very hard problem; and the Rajah thought and thought, as hard as a Malay Rajah can be expected to think, but could not solve it; and so he was very unhappy, and did nothing but smoke and chew betel with his favourite wife, and eat scarcely anything; and even when he went to the...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 278
- Synonyms:
- cockmatch
Verb
cockfight (third-person singular simple present cockfights, present participle cockfighting, simple past and past participle cockfought)
- To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
- I watched through to the triumphant ending, in which Chicken George cockfought his way to freedom and came back with gold to buy his family out of postwar sharecropping.1994, Charlise Lyles, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, page 245
cockfight meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
cockfight in Tamil
- contest
- சேவல் சண்டை cēval caṇṭai
cockfight in Bengali
- contest
- মোরগের লড়াই mōrger loṛai
cockfight in Telugu
- contest
- కోడిపందెం kōḍipandeṁ
cockfight in Malayalam
- contest
- കോഴിപ്പോര് kōḻippōrŭ
More languagesFewer languages
- cockfight in Kannada
- ಕೋಳಿ ಅಂಕ kōḷi aṅka
- cockfight in Odia
- ଗଞ୍ଜା ଲଢ଼େଇ gañjā laṛhei
- cockfight in Assamese
- কুকুৰা যুঁজ kukura zũz
- cockfight in Tagalog
- sabong
- cockfight in Arabic
- مصارعة الديوك
- cockfight in Malay
- sabung ayam
- cockfight in Indonesian
- sabung ayam
- cockfight in Thai
- ไก่ชน
- cockfight in Myanmar
- ကြက်တိုက်ခြင်း kraktuikhkrang:
Synonyms of cockfight
Forms of cockfight
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cockfights |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cockfights |
| present participle | cockfighting |
| past participle | cockfought |
| past | cockfought |
Origin of cockfight
From cock + fight.
Questions about cockfight
- What does cockfight mean?
- Cockfight means a contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs.
- What is cockfight in Tamil?
- Cockfight in Tamil is சேவல் சண்டை (cēval caṇṭai). See Cockfight meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cockfight?
- Cockfight can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cockfight?
- Cockfight is pronounced /ˈkɒkˌfaɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cockfight?
- The plural of cockfight is cockfights.
Words near cockfight in the dictionary
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