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单词 cock-a-doodle-dooing
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cock-a-doodle-dooingn.

Brit. /ˌkɒkəˌduːdlˈduːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌkɑkəˌdud(ə)lˈduɪŋ/
Forms: see cock-a-doodle-doo v. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cock-a-doodle-doo v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < cock-a-doodle-doo v. + -ing suffix1.
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.
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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.

Brit. /ˌkɒkəˌduːdlˈduːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌkɑkəˌdud(ə)lˈduɪŋ/
Forms: see cock-a-doodle-doo v. and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cock-a-doodle-doo v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < cock-a-doodle-doo v. + -ing suffix2.
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.
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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).
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