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  1. noun An adult male chicken; a rooster.
  2. noun An adult male of various other birds.
  3. noun A weathervane shaped like a rooster; a weathercock.
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  • He looked down and saw his cock was again becoming erect. —  OfficeSlaveII
  • A black Minorca cock was allowed to pick the grains and the selected letters were recorded. —  Analog April, 1971
  • The condom hanging off his cock was an incongruous note that made her grin. —  SexyBeastII
  • The hot water beat a rapid tattoo down her spine and his cock was a firebrand against her belly. —  Kate Douglas, Lacy Danes, Morgan Hawke - Sexy Beast III
  • Beneath the head of his cock is usually the most sensitive part, which some men claim is their —  open source sex
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  1. Middle English cok, from Old English cocc, probably from Late Latin coccus, from coco, a cackling, of imitative origin.
  2. Middle English cok.

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  1. Early modern English also cocke, from Middle English cock, cok, coc, from Anglo-Saxon coc, cocc = Middle Dutch kocke = Icelandic kokkr = Danish kok, a cock; cf. Old French coc, French coq = Breton kok = Middle Latin coccus = Walloon cocos = Albanian cocos, a cock, Greek κοκκοβόας ὅρνις, a poetical name of the cock, literally the ‘“cock”-crying bird’ (as Chaucer says of the cock: “No thing ne liste him thanne for to crow, But cryde anon cok! cok! and up he sterte,” Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 455); cf. Greek κίκιρρος, κίκκος, a cock, κίκκα, a hen, Sanskrit kukkuta, a cock, Malay kukuk, the crowing of a cock, Latin coco, an imitation of the clucking of the hen; all directly or ult. imitative of the crowing or the chucking of the domestic cock; for other similar imitative words, see chuck, clock = cluck, cuckoo, cackle, etc., gaggle, croak, chough, etc., gowk, a cuckoo, etc., all containing (orig.) a repeated guttural consonant c, k, g, h. The older Teutonic name of the cock, which appears in Gothic (Moesogothic) hana = Old High German hano, Middle High German han, German hahn = Anglo-Saxon hana, a cock, and in feminine form in Anglo-Saxon henn, English hen, had also orig. ref. to the crowing of the cock, being literally ‘the singer’: see hen. The name cock has been applied, from a real or a fancied resemblance, to various mechanical contrivances, and to other things having no obvious relation to the name of the bird; and it also enters, actually or allusively (often in connection with cock), into various popular adjectives and phrases, as cockish, cocky, cocket, cock-a-hoop, cockapert, etc. See these words, and cock.
  2. from cock, n.
  3. Popularly associated with cock, as if meaning ‘strut as a cock’ or ‘set up like a cock's tail’; but perhaps of Celtic origin: cf. Gaelic coc, cock, coc-shron, a cocked nose, coc-shronach, cock-nosed, and see cockeye. See cock, n., etymology, at end, and cocky, cockish, cocket, etc.
  4. from cock, v.
  5. Perhaps Scandinavian: cf. Danish kok (Wedgwood), a heap, pile, = Swedish kola, a clod of earth, = Icelandic kökkr, a lump, a ball; cf. also German dial. kocke, a heap of hay. Perhaps in part a variant of cop = cob, a haycock: see cob. Hence prob. the diminutive coggle.
  6. Early modern English also cocke; from Middle English *cok (only in comp. cokboot, cockboat), also in the form cog (after Low German or Scandinavian), = Old High German kocho, Middle High German kocke, kucke, German kocke (also with alteration, Middle Low German kogge, koghe, Low German kogge = Middle Dutch kogghe, Dutch kog = Icelandic kuggr, modern kuggi = Old Swedish kogger, Swedish dial. kåg, kåk = Danish kogge, kaag, later Middle English cogge, modern English cog, q. v.), from Old French coque, French coque = Spanish coca = Italian cocca, formerly also cucca (Middle Latin reflex cocca, cocco, and (after Low German) cogga, coggo, cogo; cf. Corn, coc = Welsh cwch = Gaelic Irish coca = Breton koked), a boat; all prob. from Middle Latin concha, a boat more or less shell-shaped, a gondola, a particular use (like English shell, a boat) of Latin concha, a shell, a snail's shell, any shell, a shell-shaped vessel, later Italian conca = Spanish Portuguese concha = French coque, a shell, the hull of a ship: see conch, and cf. cockle.
  7. from Italian cocca, n., the nock of an arrow, poetical an arrow, dart, = Provencal coca = French coche, a nock, notch, nick, nib of a pen; perhaps of Celtic origin: cf. cog.
  8. Middle English cocken, cokken, fight, contend; origin obscure; apparently not connected with cock, n. Cf. cock, v., II.
  9. Middle English cocke; from the verb.
  10. Middle English cocke, perhaps from Anglo-Saxon *cocc, in comp. sǣ-coccas, plural, sea-cockles (prob. from Welsh cocos, cocs, cockles), but perhaps a bbr. of cockel, cokel: see cockle.
  11. See cocker.
  12. Middle English cocke, from Latin coccum, scarlet: see coccus.
 

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