- What is the difference between “rooster” vs. “cock” and “hen” vs . . .
Edit: Here in Vietnam, cocks are sometimes pets like dogs I see Vietnamese take their cocks to the park or the riverside I see Vietnamese take their cocks to the park or the riverside They may spar them, not full on cock fights (though this may be more common than seen) so they are really cocks not roosters , as they lack a roost
- etymology - The connection between roosters and genitalia - English . . .
From the Online Etymology Dictionary: cock "male chicken," Old English cocc "male bird," Old French coc (12c , Modern French coq), Old Norse kokkr, all of echoic origin
- Is the phrase all to c**k considered profane?
I occasionally use the colloquialism "all to cock" to mean "disastrously wrong" I've always thought it a benign phrase, but recently I've wondered whether the use of the word "cock" in this situat
- etymology - cold-cocked by a cocked hat - English Language Usage . . .
China Index hot and cold Cocks, Nickel Bibbs, Trap and trimmings," but how widespread cock was for faucet or tap in 1910 is not immediately clear A writer in the American Dialect Society Publication, issue 21 (1954) [combined snippets], meanwhile, takes a Freudian approach to analyzing the genesis of the term:
- etymology - Peoples names as names for genitalia? - English Language . . .
How did Peter, the surname, Johnson, and the nicknames for William(Willy) and Richard(Dick), come to mean penis? Was the first instance of these usages, related to a specific person? Are there more
- Etymology of the word cheatercock - English Language Usage Stack . . .
It may be significant that cheatercock arises here in the context of a children's game of battling tops, given the fact that (as Laurel points out in her answer) fighting cocks (roosters) is a centuries-old pastime If the term originated in the specific context of battling tops, the inclusion of "cock" in the term might be a pejorative
- What was the actual cock and bull story?
From Wikipedia: Cock and Bull A pair of coaching inns alongside the former A5 road or the old Roman road Watling Street in Stony Stratford (Buckinghamshire, England), named respectively 'The Cock' and 'The Bull', are said to have given rise to the term "cock and bull stories "
- What is the origin and earliest recorded usage of cock-up
One of the (many) dictionary definitions for cock is: Nonsense (British Slang) So to cock up is to make a cock of something
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