- 1雞鳴時分、黎明（偏書面；口語多說天亮、一大早）
Cockcrow is an old, slightly word for the very early morning — the time when start to call, around first light. People used it the way we now say dawn or . You find it in older stories, in the Bible, and in lines like “before cockcrow”. Though actually almost nobody says “I’ll meet you at cockcrow” in ordinary talk today; they say at dawn, at first light, or first thing in the morning. The word names a time of day, not the sound itself. The sound is the crowing. It is not rude and not slang; it just feels old and a little literary.
組成From Middle English cok crowe (also cokkes crowe), cock + crow. It likely took the place of Old English hancrǣd, which meant the same thing, literally “cock-crowing”, from hana (cock, rooster) + crǣd (crowing).
原始詞典資料1 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。
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The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light.
- The unfortunate shepherd that approaches them must dance their rounds with them till cock-crow; and the instances are not few of persons thus ensnared who have been found next morning dead with exhaustion and fatigue.
- I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.
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