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weathercock

weathercock noun: a weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.

Noun

weathercock (plural weathercocks)

  1. A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
  2. (figuratively) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
  3. (Canada, US) A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.

Verb

weathercock (third-person singular simple present weathercocks, present participle weathercocking, simple past and past participle weathercocked)

  1. (intransitive) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
  2. (intransitive) To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.
  3. (transitive) To act as a weathercock for.

weathercock meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

weathercock in Tamil

காற்றுத்திசைகாட்டி, வானிலைச் சேவல்

weathercock in Bengali

বাতপতাকা, একজন চপল, অস্থির ব্যক্তি, বাতাসের দিকের সাথে ঘোরে

weathercock in Kannada

ಗಾಳಿಕೋಳಿ

Forms of weathercock

Noun
pluralweathercocks
Verb
third-person singular presentweathercocks
present participleweathercocking
past participleweathercocked
pastweathercocked

Origin of weathercock

From Middle English wetharcoke, weþercok, wedercoc, wederkok, equivalent to weather + cock.

Questions about weathercock

What does weathercock mean?
Weathercock means a weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
What is weathercock in Tamil?
Weathercock in Tamil is காற்றுத்திசைகாட்டி, வானிலைச் சேவல். See Weathercock meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is weathercock?
Weathercock can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of weathercock?
The plural of weathercock is weathercocks.

Words near weathercock in the dictionary

  1. Weatherbys
  2. weathercast
  3. weathercaster
  4. weathercasters
  5. weathercasts
  6. weathercock
  7. weathercocked
  8. weathercocking
  9. weathercockish
  10. weathercocks
  11. weathercocky

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: weathercock (page history and authors); weathercock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weathercock (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weathercock (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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