cock
cock 英 [kɒk] 美 [kɑk]
n. 公鸡；龙头；雄鸟；头目 vt. 使竖起；使耸立；使朝上 vi. 翘起；竖起；大摇大摆
进行时:cocking 过去式:cocked 过去分词:cocked 第三人称单数:cocks 名词复数:cocks
- Cock is most often used to refer to either birds or guns. A cock is a rooster, but it's also the hammer on a gun that you adjust so you can fire it.
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- n. 公鸡；龙头；雄鸟；头目
- vt. 使竖起；使耸立；使朝上
- vi. 翘起；竖起；大摇大摆
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1. The cock gave me a peck.
那只公鸡啄了我一下。
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2. The cock's feathers ruffled at the sight of the dog.
公鸡一遇到狗羽毛便直竖起来。
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3. The cock, who is never so sure about anything as the hen is about the egg she has laid, immediately starts to cackle like the female of his species.
公鸡对任何东西从来没有像母鸡产下蛋时那么自信过，因此他立即开始学他的同类母鸡一样咯咯叫起来。
- cock (n.1) "male of the domestic fowl," from Old English cocc "male bird," Old French coc (12c., Modern French coq), Old Norse kokkr, all of echoic origin. Compare Albanian kokosh "cock," Greek kikkos, Sanskrit kukkuta, Malay kukuk. "Though at home in English and French, not the general name either in Teutonic or Romanic; the latter has derivatives of L. gallus, the former of OTeut. *hanon-" [OED]; compare hen.
- cock (n.2) in various mechanical senses, such as "turn-valve of a faucet" (early 15c.), of uncertain connection with cock (n.1). Perhaps all are based on real or fancied resemblances not now obvious; German has hahn "cock" in many of the same senses.
- cock (n.3) "penis," 1610s, but compare pillicock "penis," attested from early 14c. (as pilkoc, found in an Anglo-Irish manuscript known as "The Kildare Lyrics," in a poem beginning "Elde makiþ me," complaining of the effects of old age: Y ne mai no more of loue done; Mi pilkoc pisseþ on mi schone), also attested from 12c. as a surname (Johanne Pilecoc, 1199: Hugonem Pillok, 1256; there is also an Agnes Pillock). Also compare Middle English fide-cok "penis" (late 15c.), from fid "a peg or plug."
- cock (v.) mid-12c., cocken, "to fight;" 1570s, "to swagger;" 1640s as "to raise or draw back the hammer or cock of a gun or pistol as a preliminary to firing." Seeming contradictory modern senses of "to turn or stand up, turn to one side" (as in cock one's ear), c. 1600, and "to bend" (1898) are from the two cock nouns. The first is probably in reference to the posture of the bird's head or tail, the second to the firearm position.
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