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weathercocks

weathercocks is the plural of weathercock.

Meaning of weathercock

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.

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Questions about weathercocks

What is weathercocks the plural of?
Weathercocks is the plural of weathercock.

Words near weathercocks in the dictionary

  1. weathercasts
  2. weathercock
  3. weathercocked
  4. weathercocking
  5. weathercockish
  6. weathercocks
  7. weathercocky
  8. weatherdeck
  9. weatherdecks
  10. weathered
  11. weathered a point

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