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    The bright red, soft ridge of flesh that stands up on a ’s head. Farmers also call it a comb. It can look taller or flatter depending on the bird’s health and mood, so people who keep chickens watch it. The picture is simple: a cock’s comb. City English does not use this word much unless you are on a farm, in a story, or naming the garden flower whose crumpled red head was thought to look like the same crest — though actually, here we mean the thing on the bird, not the plant.

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組成From Middle English cokkes comb: cock (rooster) + -s- (’s) + comb (the fleshy crest on the bird’s head).

同家族的字

  • cockthe rooster; this is his comb
  • combthe same comb as on a bird’s head, also the tool for hair because of the shape
  • coxcombold word for a vain man; a jester’s cap was made to look like this crest

原始詞典資料6 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。

cockscombnoun

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    The fleshy red crest of a rooster.

  • 2

    A red cap once worn by court jesters.

  • 3

    A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia).

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    An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers.

    • She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.
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    archaicA conceited dandy.

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    nauticaltransportA serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed.

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。