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Picture a — the male chicken standing tall in the yard, head and comb held high, crowing at dawn. That upright, head-up bird is the original picture, and several other uses borrow either its name (other male birds, a man) or its proud, tilted-up posture (cocking your head, an ear, a hat, a gun's hammer).

可以想成一隻公雞——清晨在院子裡昂首挺立、雞冠高聳、引吭啼叫的那隻雄鳥。這個「高高抬起頭」的公雞形象是最原始的畫面。…更多收起可以想成一隻公雞——清晨在院子裡昂首挺立、雞冠高聳、引吭啼叫的那隻雄鳥。這個「高高抬起頭」的公雞形象是最原始的畫面。其他用法有的借它的名字（其他雄鳥、甚至用來叫熟識的男人），有的借它那副高昂、向上翹起的姿態（把頭歪起來、豎起耳朵、把帽子戴歪、扳起槍的擊錘）。不過要注意，這個字底下也藏著幾個彼此關係較遠的分支，不必硬把它們全拉回公雞身上。

原始詞典資料36 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Cockname

  • 1

    A surname.

cocknoun詞源 1/kɒk/

  • 1

    A male bird, especially:

    • A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice.
  • 2

    A male bird, especially:

  • 3

    A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.

    • The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […], from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.
  • 4

    The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.

  • 5

    vulgarA penis.

    • She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?
    • My cock is much bigger than yours / My cock can walk right through the door / With a feeling so pure / It's got you screaming back for more
  • 6

    ball-gamescurlinggamesThe circle at the end of the rink.

  • 7

    The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.

    • […] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said.
    • […] in 1803; my eyes transmogrified […]; my nose had lost its pretty cock, and had grown elegantly hooked; and […]
  • 8

    derogatoryslangA stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.

另外 13 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    derogatoryslangNonsense; rubbish; a fraud.

    • "You used to talk an awful lot of cock."
    • That Hitler's armies can't be beat is just a load of cock, / For Marshal Timoshenko's boys are pissing through von Bock […]
  • 10

    obsoleteslangAn apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.

    • The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.
    • CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE: COMPRISING "COCKS," OR "CATCHPENNIES," A Large and Curious Assortment of STREET DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC STORIES IN PROSE AND VERSE, […]
  • 11

    slangA man; a fellow.

    • All right, cock?
    • Now, in coming down here, I journeyed part of the way with a jolly old cock, who shed a tear with me every time the coach stopped […]
  • 12

    A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.

  • 13

    informalShuttlecock.

  • 14

    A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.

    • Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
  • 15

    datedA chief person; a leader or master.

  • 16

    obsoleteA leading thing.

    • The contrarye [side of a die] to this... was called Venus, or Cous, and yt was cocke, the beste that might be cast.
    • Tis sir Salomon's sword; cock of as many men as it hath been drawn against. Woe worth the man that comes in the way of so dead-doing a tool, […]
  • 17

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

    • This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock;
    • "I suppose, John," said Clara, as her brother entered the apartment," you are glad of a weaker cup this morning than those you were drinking last night - you were carousing till after the first cock."
  • 18

    A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.

    • As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.
  • 19

    The style or gnomon of a sundial.

    • Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.
  • 20

    The indicator of a balance.

    • The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.
  • 21

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

    • A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw

cockverb詞源 1/kɒk/

  • 1

    To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.

    • Cocked, fired, and missed his man.
  • 2

    To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.

    • In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
  • 3

    To erect; to turn up.

    • Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.
    • Dick would cock his nose in scorn.
  • 4

    slangTo copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.

    • Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s "Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."
  • 5

    To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.

    • He cocked his hat jauntily.
  • 6

    datedTo turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.

    • The Sentry, to this question, said nothing in reply; / But first he cocked his rifle, and then he cocked his eye.
  • 7

    datedTo strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.

  • 8

    obsoleteTo make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).

cockintj詞源 1/kɒk/

  • 1

    slangExpression of annoyance.

cocknoun詞源 2/kɒk/

  • 1

    A small conical pile of hay or grass.

    • Near-synonyms: rick, stook, shock
    • The farmhands stack the hay into cocks.

cockverb詞源 2/kɒk/

  • 1

    To form into piles.

    • Under the cocked hay.

cocknoun詞源 3/kɒk/

  • 1

    Vulva, vagina.

    • Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear, Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.
    • My back is made of whalebone And my cock is made of brass

cockname詞源 5/kɒk/

  • 1

    obsoleteA corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

    • By cock and pie.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。