cockcrowing

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noun
Definitions
  • The crowing sound of a cock.
  • cockcrow; daybreak

Etymology

Compound from English cock (penis, male domestic chicken, a shock pile of grain, diminutive suffix, male, a roundish heap, rooster) + English crowing.

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crowing

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