Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common name in some parts of England for the ribwort, Plantago lanceolata, from a children's game in which the flower-spikes are fought against each other like cocks in a cock-fight.
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- noun Plural form of
cock . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cock .
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Examples
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I'll put it in cocks: how much heft should be in 'em?
Queechy 1854
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"But, Mr. Douglass, you'll try the experiment of curing it in cocks?"
Queechy 1854
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It was rich to hear him the other day descanting to Lucas upon the evil effects of earthing up corn, and the advantages of curing hay in cocks, as to both which matters Lucas is a thorough unbeliever, and Earl was a year ago.
Queechy 1854
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A cocksucker who does not suck cocks is not a cocksucker at all.
Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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We can apply Anselm's argument for existence as superior to non-existence here, and with even more force, for a cocksucker who does not suck cocks is clearly less great than one who does, and a generosity which is not enacted is clearly less great than that which is.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007
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A cocksucker who does not suck cocks is not a cocksucker at all.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007
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We can apply Anselm's argument for existence as superior to non-existence here, and with even more force, for a cocksucker who does not suck cocks is clearly less great than one who does, and a generosity which is not enacted is clearly less great than that which is.
Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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The cocks were the true art, but her paychecks came from water-color city scenes painted for tourists, this income slightly augmented by a rapidly dwindling inheritance from her paternal grandmother.
Cock Sculpting 2009
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And here is between two cocks, which is nice and tense.
Between two ferns Tripp 2009
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The cocks were the true art, but her paychecks came from water-color city scenes painted for tourists, this income slightly augmented by a rapidly dwindling inheritance from her paternal grandmother.
Cock Sculpting 2009
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