cockとは

語源 1

From Middle English cok, from 古期英語 coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.

名詞

cock (複数形 cocks)

1. A male bird, especially:
   1. A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
   2. A single word (in context) for a cock pigeon (male pigeon).
2. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
3. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
4. The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
5. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
6. (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
7. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
8. (Britain, New Zealand, pejorative, slang) A stupid person.
9. (informal, Britain, Tasmania) Term of address.

   All right, cock?

10. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
11. (informal) shuttlecock
12. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
    • Shakespeare

      Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!

13. (dated, humorous) A chief man; a leader or master.
    • Addison

      Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us.

14. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
    • Shakespeare

      He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock.

15. The style or gnomon of a sundial.

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16. The indicator of a balance.

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17. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

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同意語

• (male bird): cockbird
• (male chicken): rooster
• (valve): stopcock
• (penis): see Wikisaurus:penis

派生語

関連する語

• cockerel

動詞

cock (三人称単数 現在形 cocks, 現在分詞 cocking, 過去形および過去分詞形 cocked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun または crossbow) to be fired.
   • Byron

     Cocked, fired, and missed his man.

2. (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.

   In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.

3. (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
   • Gay

     Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.

   • Jonathan Swift

     Dick would cock his nose in scorn.

4. (Britain, transitive, slang) To copulate with.
5. (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.

   He cocked his hat jauntily.

6. (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
7. (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.

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8. (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children)

派生語

• to cock a deaf 'un
• to cock a snook
• to cock one's ear

間投詞

cock

1. (slang) Expression of annoyance.
   • 2006, "Vamp", oh cock i should have kept with a toyota! (on newsgroup uk.rec.cars.modifications)

参考

• cock and bull story

語源 2

Uncertain. Some authors speculate it derives from cockle, a yonic fertility symbol,^[1] others suggested it entered Southern US vernacular during the period of French rule (of Louisiana) from Cajun French coquille (“shell”) (itself the source of cockle), which in 18th and 19th century slang meant the vulva.^[2]

名詞

cock (複数形 cocks)

1. (dated in the Southern US, still sometimes found in African American Vernacular) Vulva, vagina. [since at least the 1920s; less common after the 1960s]
   • c. 1920-1960,, Rufus George Perryman (Speckled Red), quoted by Elijah Wald, The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama:

     Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear,

     Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.

   • 1949 March 2, Mrs. H. K. of Camden, Missouri, quoted by Vance Randolph, Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms, Volume 1:

     I've got a girl in Castle Rock,

     She wears a moustache on her cock.

   • 1998, Scarface, Fuck Faces (song):

     I stuck my fist up in her cock, she didn't budge or move it.

   • 2010, Vildred C. Tucker-Dawson, A Journey Back in Time: My Story Book:

     she smelled like she was on her period and hadn't changed pads. On ah many occasions I heard men say her cock smelled through her clothing.

参照

語源 3

From Middle English cock, cok, from 古期英語 -cocc (attested in place names), from Old Norse kǫkkr (“lump”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *geugh- (“swelling”). Cognate with Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).

名詞

cock (複数形 cocks)

1. A small conical pile of hay.

   The farmhands stack the hay into cocks

派生語

• hay-cock

動詞

cock (三人称単数 現在形 cocks, 現在分詞 cocking, 過去形および過去分詞形 cocked)

1. (transitive) To form into piles.
   • Spenser

     Under the cocked hay.

語源 4

from Old French coque (“a type of small boat”), from child-talk coco 'egg'

名詞

cock (複数形 cocks)

1. Short for cock-boat, a type of small boat.
   • Shakespeare

     Yond tall anchoring bark [appears] / Diminished to her cock; her cock, a buoy / Almost too small for sight.

固有名詞

cock

1. (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
   • Shakespeare

     By cock and pie.

派生語

• cocksure