Definitions
Etymologies
- Onomatopoetic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The red jungle fowl was domesticated around 4,000 years ago in India, where it still calls cock-a-doodle-doo in tiger-infested forests.”
The Wall Street Journal: Reasons to Crow About Ever-Bigger Chickens
““I suppose I shouldn't ask if I can make a small cock-a-doodle-doo as soon as I walk in the door to hear that echo sound.””
“I'm sorry but I believe instead the biggest questions are, will the rooster cock-a-doodle-doo once in a nominal day or every orbit as the sun goes up?”
“At first light, ere a rooster had reached the doodle part of his cock-a-doodle-doo, Alobar shook Alma awake, ordering her back to the harem and requesting that she send Wren in her stead.”
“Will Big Bird shed his feathers for a little cock-a-doodle-doo?”
“Schmutzie: Did you know that instead of "cock-a-doodle-doo", roosters say "cocorico" in French?”
“I remember reading an article where Martin wrote, "cock-a-doodle-doo" boasting that he would be remembered as the one to take down Obama.”
“Farmur be gibbin kitteh leetle noat wiv “cock-a-doodle-doo” awn eet, but kitteh be sidlexics.”
teh rooster called in sick todeh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“And the chicken lost her cock-a-doodle-doo near the end, when she was pitchy, which made the end note sound like cock-a-doo-doo.”
YesButNoButYes: Haterade's Idol Anal-ysis (Round of 9) - 4/1/08
“Yet if a (non-OP) production has the actor say "cock-a-doodle-doo" here (or even "cock-a-diddle-do") which the audience *will* accept .... to preserve the rhyme would require changing the dog's bark to "boo-woo" for the sake of the rhyme .... and this, I think, the audience will not accept.”
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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Things that rhyme with chicken noodle...
Just because I picked up a can of chicken noodle soup and thought it would be fun.
stricken poodle g..., rick and ruud'll ..., kit and kaboodle ..., wicks in poodle poop, thicken strudel loop, stick in doodle hoop, kitten poodle soup, chick in hula hoop, cock-a-doodle-doo, mitten flew the coop
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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Animal Sounds
woof, ruff, bow wow, yap, arf, yip, mew, meow, moo, oink, growl, roar and 27 more...
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Birdsong
Coo'.
caw, twitter, toot, tweet, coo, crow, cock-a-doodle-doo, hoot, warble, cheep, chirp, trumpet and 14 more...
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