Word.ws English Dictionary

throstlecocks

throstlecocks is the plural of throstlecock.

Meaning of throstlecock

Noun

throstlecock (plural throstlecocks)

  1. The male throstle.
    • The wind so whirled a weathercock
      He could not hold his tail up;
      The frost so nipped a throstlecock,
      He could not snap a snail up.1962, J.R.R. Tolkien, “When Winter first begins to bite”, in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

Questions about throstlecocks

What is throstlecocks the plural of?
Throstlecocks is the plural of throstlecock.

Words near throstlecocks in the dictionary

  1. Throsk
  2. throstell
  3. throstells
  4. throstle
  5. throstlecock
  6. throstlecocks
  7. throstles
  8. throte
  9. throtes
  10. throtteen
  11. throttlable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: throstlecocks (page history and authors); throstlecock (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “throstlecocks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/throstlecocks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.