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COCKEREL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cockerel mean?
• COCKEREL (noun)
The noun COCKEREL has 1 sense:
1. a young domestic cock; not older than one year
Familiarity information: COCKEREL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young domestic cock; not older than one year
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("cockerel" is a kind of...):
Context examples
I'll put on my old cockerel hat, and step along of you to Cap'n Trelawney, and report this here affair.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You, my cockerel, you.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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"Every rock strikes the feet of the poor." (Afghanistan proverb)
"A mosquito can make the lion's eye bleed." (Arabic proverb)
"The word goes out but the message is lost." (Corsican proverb)