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cocklings

cocklings is the plural of cockling.

Meaning of cockling

Noun

cockling (plural cocklings)

  1. A young, small, or immature cock.
    • These cocklings cocker'd we bewail too late, When that we see our off-spring gaily bent, Women manwood, and men effeminate.1725, Sir Philip Sidney, The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney

Questions about cocklings

What is cocklings the plural of?
Cocklings is the plural of cockling.

Words near cocklings in the dictionary

  1. cocklicking
  2. cocklicks
  3. cocklight
  4. cocklike
  5. cockling
  6. cocklings
  7. cockloft
  8. cocklofts
  9. cockly
  10. Cockman
  11. cockmaster

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