cockalorum

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Word for the Day, Monday, April 20, 2009 -- cockalorum

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  • Why not embark on a rigorous and more sustainable afforestation policy with citizen participation and tree nurturing, other than revelling in puffed joy for going on missions, which are otherwise a nigh-hysterically blissful explosion of high cockalorum? —  Up Station Mountain Club
  • Word for the Day, Monday, April 20, 2009 -- cockalorum —  Latest Articles
  • I really do try to behave, but I have my cockalorum set for 11 p.m., and when it goes off ... —  Latest Articles
  • "The new CIC, cockalorum, seems unable to tell the difference between fiction and fact ... and he's making decisions based on the former!" —  Latest Articles
  • (Mushroom, Tue 20 Oct, 19: 11, Reply) hi cockalorum! —  B3ta
 

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  1. Perhaps alteration (influenced by Latin -ōrum, genitive pl. ending) of obsolete Flemish kockeloeren, to crow, of imitative origin.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. A humorous word, apparently < cock + -al-orum, a Latin-seeming ending; but perhaps a variation of cockarouse, formerly used in the same sense: often with the epithet high.
 

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/kɑkəˈloʊrəm/
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