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cocksparrow

cocksparrow is the alternative form of cock-sparrow.

Meaning of cock-sparrow

Noun

cock-sparrow (plural cock-sparrows)

  1. A male sparrow.
  2. A quarrelsome, cocky person
    • Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries.1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque

Forms of cocksparrow

pluralcocksparrows

Questions about cocksparrow

What is cocksparrow the alternative form of?
Cocksparrow is the alternative form of cock-sparrow.

Words near cocksparrow in the dictionary

  1. cocksmiths
  2. cocksock
  3. cocksocket
  4. cocksockets
  5. cocksocks
  6. cocksparrow
  7. cocksplat
  8. cocksplats
  9. cockspur
  10. cockspur coral tree
  11. cockspur coral trees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cocksparrow (page history and authors); cock-sparrow (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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