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A cockerel is a young male chicken — not a brand-new chick, but a young that is not fully grown yet. A grown male is a cock or a ; a female is a hen; a baby of either sex is a chick. Farmers and people who keep birds use cockerel; in city English many people just say young , or even for any male. The word is more British than American. It is a plain farm word: not fancy, not rude, not a joke. Though actually, if you only say “young chicken”, listeners may picture a hen as easily as a male — cockerel makes the sex and the age clear.
小公雞（還沒長成的年輕公雞，不是剛孵出的小雞）
組成From Middle English kokerel. On the surface, cock (male chicken) + -rel, an ending that can mark something small or young.
同家族的字
- cockmale chicken; the stem of the word
原始詞典資料1 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。
cockerelnoun/ˈkɒkəɹəl/
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A young male chicken.
- “Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.”
- He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.
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。