cocks

Meaning of cocks

plural noun
  1. a male bird, especially of a domestic fowl.
  2. a man's penis.
  3. nonsense.
    that's all a lot of cock
  4. a firing lever in a gun which can be raised to be released by the trigger.
  5. a stopcock.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. tilt (something) in a particular direction.
    she cocked her head slightly to one side
  2. raise the cock of (a gun) in order to make it ready for firing.
    he took the loaded pistol from his belt and cocked it
  3. ruin something as a result of incompetence or inefficiency.
    the party cocked up the Euro-elections

Old English cocc, from medieval Latin coccus ; reinforced in Middle English by Old French coq .

plural noun
  1. a small pile of hay, straw, or other material, with vertical sides and a rounded top.
    we perched on a half-built cock of hay
verb, 3rd person present
  1. pile (hay or other material) into cocks.
    it does not rake the grass into rows, nor cock it

late Middle English: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian kok ‘heap, lump’, Danish kok ‘haycock’, and Swedish koka ‘clod’.

Information about cocks

  • The singular form of cocks is: cock.
  • Languages ​​in which cocks is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of cocks

cocks

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • cocks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

cocks synonyms

Meaning a male domestic fowl; a cock:

rooster

Meaning a young domestic cock:

cockerel

Meaning a castrated domestic cock fattened for eating:

capon

Meaning a name given to a domestic cock, especially in fairy tales:

chanticleer

Meaning move or cause to move into a sloping position:

tilt

Meaning attach to or cover the end or extremity of:

tip

Meaning direct or incline at an angle:

angle

Meaning be in or move into a sloping position:

lean

Meaning (of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down:

slope

Meaning heap (a substance) into a mass or mound:

bank

Meaning slope or lean in a particular direction; diverge or cause to diverge from the vertical or horizontal:

slant

Meaning be favourably disposed towards or willing to do something:

incline

Meaning set (one's voice or a piece of music) at a particular pitch:

pitch

Meaning put or let something down quickly or briefly in or into (liquid):

dip

Meaning talk hypocritically and sanctimoniously about something:

cant

Meaning change (a square edge on an object) to a sloping one:

bevel

Meaning the slightly convex or arched shape of a road or other horizontal surface:

camber

Meaning fit or renew a heel on (a shoe or boot):

heel

Meaning move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way:

careen

Words that rhyme with cocks

bocks, kebbocks, steinbocks, Cocks, abricocks, apricocks, ballcocks, bawcocks, bibcocks, billycocks, blackcocks, coldcocks, dawcocks, gamecocks, gorcocks, haycocks, heathcocks, meacocks, mococks, moorcocks, peacocks, petcocks, pillicocks, pinchcocks, poppycocks, princocks, recocks, seacocks, shuttlecocks, spatchcocks, spitchcocks, stopcocks, turncocks, uncocks, weathercocks, woodcocks, Maddocks, boondocks, bundocks, burdocks, butterdocks, candocks, daddocks, docks, haddocks, hordocks, maddocks, paddocks, piddocks, puddocks

Are you looking more rhymes for cocks? Try our rhymes search engine.