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单词 cock-breeder
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cock-breeder
a. General use as a modifier (in sense A. 1), as in cock house, cock crest; also with agent nouns and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which cock expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in cock-breeder, cock-feeder, etc.See also cockcrow n., cockfight n., cockpit n., etc.
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a1475 Bk. Hawking in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 305 Take a cokke torde soden in vinegre.
1614 G. Markham Pleasvre of Princes 45 in Second Bk. Eng. Husbandman Of the Cocke Pen. This pen would be made of very close boardes.
1614 G. Markham Pleasvre of Princes 46 in Second Bk. Eng. Husbandman Stow your Cocke in a Cocke-bagge.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xix. 670 The cocke-house where hee shall keepe his fighting cockes and hennes.
a1784 G. A. Stevens Adventures Speculist (1788) II. 193 Far be it from the historian of this narrative to be impertinent enough to sacrifice so respectable a community as Cock-feeders, Cock-fighters, or Cock-breeders.
1834 Sporting Mag. Nov. 53/1 He was the most celebrated cock-feeder England ever produced.
1870 Blaine's Encycl. Rural Sports (rev. ed.) §4001 Cock feeding and training are words of synonymous import.
1920 Now (San Francisco) June 211 He seized his idea, and holding it by the throat, as a cock-fancier presents his choicest specimen, he hied to the nearest lawyer's office and flourished it before him.
2004 New Yorker 6 Sept. 81/1 The next soup was a velvety cream of squab with cucumbers, served with cock-crest fritters.
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