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cockings

cockings is the plural of cocking.

Meaning of cocking

Noun

cocking (countable and uncountable, plural cockings)

  1. (archaic) The hunting of gamecocks.
  2. (obsolete) Cockfighting.
    • Thus circumstanced, he became the avowed companion of sharpers and gamblers, attended cockings and races […]1792, The European Magazine, and London Review, volume 21, page 313
  3. A boastful tilt; the act of cocking something.
    • cockings of the head

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Proper noun capitalized: Cockings

Cockings

  1. (plural) plural of Cocking

Questions about cockings

What is cockings the plural of?
Cockings is the plural of cocking.
What part of speech is cockings?
Cockings is a proper noun.

Words near cockings in the dictionary

  1. cocking of snooks
  2. cocking off
  3. cocking on
  4. cocking one's toes
  5. cocking up
  6. cockings
  7. Cockins
  8. cockish
  9. cockknocker
  10. cockknockers
  11. cocklaird

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