ballcock | (noun) floating ball that controls level in a water tank | Synonyms: ball cock |
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blackcock | (noun) male black grouse | Synonyms: black cock |
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cock | (noun) adult male bird | - |
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(noun) adult male chicken | Synonyms: rooster |
(noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: stopcock, turncock |
(noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: hammer |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: dick, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
cockade | (noun) an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat | - |
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cockateel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockatiel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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cockatiel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockateel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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cockatoo | (noun) white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds | - |
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cockatrice | (noun) monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance | - |
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cockchafer | (noun) any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult | Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha |
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cockcrow | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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cocker | (noun) a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England | Synonyms: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel |
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cockerel | (noun) a young domestic cock; not older than one year | - |
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cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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cockhorse | (noun) anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) | - |
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cockiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, forwardness, pushiness |
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cockle | (noun) common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs | - |
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(noun) common edible European bivalve | - |
cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
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(noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
cockleburr | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur |
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cockleshell | (noun) a small light flimsy boat | - |
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cockloft | (noun) a small loft or garret | - |
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cockney | (noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London | - |
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cockpit | (noun) compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft | - |
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(noun) seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car | - |
(noun) a pit for cockfights | - |
cockroach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: roach |
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cockscomb | (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: comb, coxcomb |
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(noun) a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red | Synonyms: coxcomb |
(noun) a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments | Synonyms: coxcomb |
(noun) garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers | Synonyms: Celosia argentea cristata, Celosia cristata, common cockscomb |
cocksfoot | (noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cockspur, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
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cockspur | (noun) small spiny West Indian tree | Synonyms: Pisonia aculeata |
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(noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
cocksucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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(noun) a person who performs fellatio | - |
cocksureness | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, overconfidence |
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cocktail | (noun) a short mixed drink | - |
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(noun) an appetizer served as a first course at a meal | - |
cockup | (noun) something badly botched or muddled | Synonyms: balls-up, ballup, mess-up |
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gamecock | (noun) a cock bred and trained for fighting | Synonyms: fighting cock |
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(noun) someone who is a very fierce fighter | Synonyms: hell-kite, hell-rooster |
haycock | (noun) a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick | - |
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moorcock | (noun) male red grouse | - |
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peacock | (noun) male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots | - |
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(noun) European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot | Synonyms: Inachis io, peacock butterfly |
petcock | (noun) regulator consisting of a small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression or draining | - |
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poppycock | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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spatchcock | (noun) flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed) | - |
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stopcock | (noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: cock, turncock |
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turncock | (noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: cock, stopcock |
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(noun) one employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and off | - |
weathercock | (noun) weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster | - |
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woodcock | (noun) game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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