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horsecock

horsecock is the alternative spelling of horse cock.

Meaning of horse cock

Noun

horse cock (countable and uncountable, plural horse cocks)

  1. (countable, literally, vulgar) The penis of a horse or a similar equid.
  2. (countable, figuratively, slang, vulgar) A very large penis.
    • Well, if anybody had a big cock it was Bill Woodruff. It was a veritable horse cock.1962, Henry Miller, Sexus, Grove Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 184
  3. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Sausage such as baloney or salami.
    • […] Those who served on the Mediterranean convoys may remember that we had to carry food for the round trip, and the last 1000-2000 miles were a steady diet of baloney. We felt "horse cock" was good enough for prisoners too, especially those who ordered "Fire!" on our ships.2004, Lewis M. Andrews, Tempest, Fire & Foe: Destroyer Escorts in World War II and the Men Who Manned Them, Trafford Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 50
  4. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Nonsense, that which is illogical and lacks any meaning, reason, or value.
    • Don said it was all horse cock except they didn't want to lead off with a book of short stories no matter whether good or not.1925, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Harold Loeb dated 5 January 1925, quoted in Kenneth Schuyler Lynn, Hemingway, Harvard University Press (1995; first published 1987), page 266

Forms of horsecock

pluralhorsecocks

Origin of horsecock

From horse + cock.

Questions about horsecock

What is horsecock the alternative spelling of?
Horsecock is the alternative spelling of horse cock.

Words near horsecock in the dictionary

  1. horsecars
  2. horsecart
  3. horsecarts
  4. horsecloth
  5. horsecloths
  6. horsecock
  7. horsecocks
  8. horsecollar
  9. horsecollared
  10. horsecollaring
  11. horsecollars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horsecock (page history and authors); horse cock (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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