单词 | cock-a-doodle-dooing |
释义 | cock-a-doodle-dooingn. The crowing of a cockerel or rooster; the action or sound of a person crowing like a cockerel or rooster. Also figurative: boastful, exultant, self-assertive, or defiant speech. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > crowing of crowc1290 cockcrow?c1475 cock-a-doodle-doo1573 chanticleering1641 cock-a-doodle-dooing1859 cockcrowing1878 1859 O. J. Jones Recoll. Winter Campaign in India vii. 126 The cock..made a point of coming to my tent..and setting up the most uproarious cock-a-doodle-dooing that ever was heard. 1885 Engineering 9 Oct. 357/3 We think this considerable self-gratulatory ‘cockadoodling’ is hung on a very small peg. 1906 tr. H. Heine in M. E. V. Cust Lucem Sequor & Other Poems 41 We crowed so like the barn-cocks, That all the passers-by, Hearing the cock-a-doodling, Thought it the poultry's cry. 1993 B. Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven iii. xxix. 300 If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world. 2010 Mirror (Nexis) 22 May (News section) 15 Outraged locals say the cock-a-doodle-dooing is a part of country life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cock-a-doodle-dooingadj. Of a cockerel or rooster: crowing; (of a person) crowing like a cockerel or rooster. Later also: showing or characterized by arrogance, boastfulness, self-assertiveness, or defiance; swaggering, strutting; cockish; cf. cock-a-doodle-doo n. and int. Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] jettingc1450 cracking1528 bragging1530 vousting1535 boasting1552 vaunting1589 cock-a-doodle-dooing1599 flourishing1616 vapouring1647 rodomontading1691 gasconade1714 gasconading1717 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [adjective] > of or relating to or like a cock cockish1577 cock-a-doodle-dooing1599 gallinaceous1879 henny1929 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 49 The Peacocks with their spotted coates and affrighting voyces for heralds they prickt and enlisted, and the cockadoodling cocks for their trumpeters. 1885 Punch 21 Nov. 244/1 Patriotism—sweet and honourable name!—applied by cock-a-doodling Chauvinism, comes to signify the selfish, short-sighted swagger with which the Music-Hall Jingo sickens all men of sense and feeling. 1915 19th Cent. & After Aug. 245 The newspapers have given up the cockadoodling interpretation of the news which continued down to May. 1917 W. W. Gibson Livelihood 12 As though 'twere life or death if he should miss A single cackle, crow or quack, or hiss Of cockadoodling fools. 2009 Townsville (Austral.) Bull. (Nexis) 25 July 8 A battle with Townsville City Council and complaining residents over cock-a-doodle-dooing roosters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1859adj.1599 |
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