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moorcock

moorcock noun: a male red grouse.

moorcock: a male red grouse
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Noun

moorcock (plural moorcocks)

  1. A male red grouse.

Proper noun capitalized: Moorcock

Moorcock (plural Moorcocks)

  1. A surname.

Forms of moorcock

Noun
pluralmoorcocks
Proper noun
pluralMoorcocks
alternative formMorecock

Origin of moorcock

From moor + cock.

Words formed from moorcock

  • Moorcockian

Questions about moorcock

What does moorcock mean?
Moorcock means a male red grouse.
What part of speech is moorcock?
Moorcock can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of moorcock?
The plural of moorcock is moorcocks.

Words near moorcock in the dictionary

  1. moorburn
  2. moorburning
  3. moorburns
  4. moorchat
  5. moorchats
  6. moorcock
  7. moorcocks
  8. Moorcroft
  9. Moorcrofts
  10. Moore
  11. Moore County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moorcock (page history and authors); Moorcock (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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