Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A young rooster.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A young male chicken.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A young cock.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A young domestic cock; specifically, the male of the domestic fowl up to one year old. Both cockerel and pullet are specifically called chicks, as distinguished from fowls.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a young domestic cock; not older than one year
Etymologies
Middle English cokerel, diminutive of cok, cock; see cock1.
(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)From Middle English cockerelle, equivalent to cock + -rel. (Wiktionary)
vanishedone commented on the word cockerel
This WeirdNet definition is fine, until you check its definition of cock.
November 29, 2007
brtom commented on the word cockerel
"Outflings my lord Stephen, giving the cry, and a tag and bobtail of all them after, cockerel, jackanapes, welsher, pilldoctor, punctual Bloom at heels with a universal grabbing at headgear, ashplants, bilbos, Panama hats and scabbards, Zermatt alpenstocks and what not."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 27, 2007