cockroach
UK/ˈkɒkɹəʊt͡ʃ//ˈkɑkɹoʊt͡ʃ/
cockroach noun: any black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea that is not a termite.
Noun
cockroach (plural cockroaches)
- Any black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea that is not a termite.
- Then there were cockroach hunts; we chased them out of their haunts, where at night they busily devoured currants, jam, and sugar; in fact their diet was far more varied than ours, for they made plentiful meals off our boots, the coverings of our books, and any stray pieces of flannel that came in...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 121
- Synonyms:
- roach
- Term of abuse.
- I want a divorce, you cockroach!
- A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
- During the Rwandan genocide, Hutu genocidaires labelled Tutsis as cockroaches and called for their extermination.
- A person from New South Wales.
- A hard lump of brown sugar.
cockroach meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cockroach in Hindi
- type of insect
- तिलचट्टा tilcaṭṭā, तिलचटा tilacṭā, चपड़ा capṛā
cockroach in Tamil
- type of insect
- கக்கலாத்து kakkalāttu, கரப்பான் பூச்சி karappāṉ pūcci, கரப்பான் karappāṉ
cockroach in Marathi
- type of insect
- झुरळ jhuraḷ
cockroach in Urdu
- type of insect
- تِل چَٹّا til caṭṭā
More languagesFewer languages
- cockroach in Bengali
- তেলাপোকা telapōka, আরশুলা arśula
- cockroach in Telugu
- బొద్దింక boddiṅka
- cockroach in Malayalam
- പാറ്റ pāṟṟa
- cockroach in Kannada
- ಜಿರಳೆ jiraḷe, ಅಕ್ಕಳೆ akkaḷe, ಜೀರಳೆ jīraḷe
- cockroach in Punjabi
- ਕਾੱਕਰੋਚ
- cockroach in Gujarati
- વંદો vando
- cockroach in Odia
- ତେଲାପୋକା
- cockroach in Sinhala
- කැරපොත්තා kærapottā
- cockroach in Assamese
- পঁইতাচোৰা põitasüra
- cockroach in Pashto
- ګړندۍ gaṛandǝ́y
- cockroach in Tagalog
- ipis
- cockroach in Arabic
- صُرْصُور ṣurṣūr
- cockroach in Malay
- lipas
- cockroach in Indonesian
- kecoak, kacoa, kecoa
- cockroach in Thai
- แมลงสาบ, สาบ sàap
- cockroach in Vietnamese
- gián
- cockroach in Myanmar
- ပိုးဟပ် pui:hap
- Kashmiri
- ؤٹِل vạṭil
- Dzongkha
- ཞོ་ལེམ zho lem
Synonyms of cockroach
Forms of cockroach
| plural | cockroaches |
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Origin of cockroach
From Spanish cucaracha, from cuca (“butterfly caterpillars”), of onomatopoeic origin; see also Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux) and Late Latin cucus. Influenced, by means of folk etymology, by cock and roach. Doublet of cucaracha.
Words formed from cockroach
- amber forest cockroach
- amber wood cockroach
- American cockroach
- Asiatic cockroach
- Australian cockroach
- Australian wood cockroach
- brown-banded cockroach
- brown cockroach
- cockroachicide
- cockroachlike
- cockroach of the sea
- cockroach taxi
- cockroach theory
- cockroach wasp
- cockroachy
- death's head cockroach
- emerald cockroach wasp
- Florida woods cockroach
- German cockroach
- giant burrowing cockroach
- giant cockroach
- Gisborne cockroach
- greenhouse cockroach
- hissing cockroach
- Japanese cockroach
- kikeroach
- Madagascar hissing cockroach
- Madeira cockroach
- oriental cockroach
- Pennsylvanian cockroach
- Pennsylvania wood cockroach
- red runner cockroach
- rhinoceros cockroach
- roach
- rusty red cockroach
- smokybrown cockroach
- Surinam cockroach
- Turkestan cockroach
- Turkroach
Phrases with cockroach
Questions about cockroach
- What does cockroach mean?
- Cockroach means any black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea that is not a termite.
- What is cockroach in Hindi?
- Cockroach in Hindi is तिलचट्टा (tilcaṭṭā), तिलचटा (tilacṭā), चपड़ा (capṛā). See Cockroach meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cockroach?
- Cockroach is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cockroach?
- Cockroach is pronounced /ˈkɑkɹoʊt͡ʃ/ (US).
- What is the plural of cockroach?
- The plural of cockroach is cockroaches.
Words near cockroach in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cockroach (page history and authors); ಅಕ್ಕಳೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); cockroach (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cockroach (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); කැරපොත්තා (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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