1. 1喔喔喔(公雞啼聲的英語寫法;台灣孩子本來就說「喔喔喔」)

    This is the noise English speakers say a makes — the adult male chicken that crows, often at dawn. It is not a word you for meaning; it is a sound written down, the way a child what they hear. Though actually, no bird says these : English just chose this stretch of sound, and other languages hear the same crow differently. You will meet it in picture books, comics, and jokes far more than in grown-up talk. People also use it as a noun for the crow itself. It is playful, not formal, and nobody is impressed if you use it in an essay — unless you are quoting a story.

組成It is a sound-word (onomatopoeia). The first bit echoes cock, an old word for a male chicken, but the rest is just the crow stretched out so you can say it.

同家族的字

  • cockthe old English word for a male chicken, which this sound-word starts with

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

cock-a-doodle-doointj/ˌkʰɒkəˌduːdɫ̩ˈduː/

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    The cry of a rooster.

    • Hark, hark, I heare, the ſtraine of ſtrutting Chanticlere cry cockadidle-dowe.
    • Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.

cock-a-doodle-doonoun/ˌkʰɒkəˌduːdɫ̩ˈduː/

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    The cry of the rooster.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。