cockatricen.

Brit.

/ˈkɒkətrʌɪs/,

/ˈkɒkətrᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈkɑkətrəs/,

/ˈkɑkəˌtraɪs/

Forms: Middle English cocatryse, Middle English cocautrice, Middle English cocetryce, Middle English cockautrice, Middle English cokautrice, Middle English coketrice, Middle English coketris, Middle English kocatrice, Middle English–1500s kokatrice, Middle English–1600s cokatrice, Middle English–1600s cokatryce, Middle English–1800s cocatrice, late Middle English coltris (transmission error), late Middle English– cockatrice, 1500s cocatryce, 1500s coccatrise, 1500s coccatryce, 1500s cockatryse, 1500s cokeatrice, 1500s cokeatryce, 1500s coketryse, 1500s kocatryce, 1500s kocketrice, 1500s kocketryce, 1500s koketrice, 1500s 1600s cockcatrice (perhaps transmission error), 1500s–1600s cackatrice, 1500s–1600s cocatrise, 1500s–1600s coccatrice, 1500s–1600s cockatrise, 1500s–1600s cockatryce, 1500s–1600s cockeatrice, 1500s–1600s cokatrise, 1500s–1600s kockatrice, 1600s cacotruce, 1600s cocatrix, 1600s cockatrix, 1600s cockatrize, 1600s cokatryse, 1600s coquatrise, 1600s kokatrise; also Scottish pre-1700 cocatras, pre-1700 cocatrice, pre-1700 coccatrice, pre-1700 cockatrick, pre-1700 cocketrice, pre-1700 cokatrice, pre-1700 cokatris, pre-1700 cokcatrice, pre-1700 coketrice, pre-1700 cokintrace, pre-1700 cokkatrice, pre-1700 cokkatryce, pre-1700 kocatrice, pre-1700 kokatrice, pre-1700 kokkatrys.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French cocatrice.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French cocatrice, cocatriz, coketriz, cocadris (in Old French also as caucatris , caucatrix , coquatriz ) crocodile (late 12th cent.), mythical animal of uncertain kind (c1200), aquatic reptile, enemy of the crocodile (13th cent.) < post-classical Latin calcatric- , calcatrix person who tramples upon (early 5th cent.; compare caucatrices (plural) crocodiles (13th cent.)) < classical Latin calcāt- , past participial stem of calcāre , originally ‘to tread’, in post-classical Latin ‘to tread on the heels of, track, trace out’ (see calcate v.) + -trīx -trix suffix, apparently after ancient Greek ἰχνεύμων ichneumon (compare ἰχνευτής ), literally ‘tracker, tracer out, hunter out’ (see ichneumon n.).Compare Old Occitan calcatrics mythical animal, probably crocodile (13th cent.), Spanish cocatriz , †cocadriz , †cacotriz , †coquedriz crocodile (c1250; < French), Italian †calcatrice mythical animal, perhaps crocodile (second half of the 13th cent.; < post-classical Latin). Since post-classical Latin calcatrix appears to have been modelled on ancient Greek ἰχνεύμων , the original sense in post-classical Latin and Old French (despite the chronology of attestation) would have been ‘enemy of the crocodile’, and subsequently by confusion also ‘crocodile’. The ichneumon was especially revered by the ancient Egyptians for destroying the eggs of the crocodile, and is called by Pliny ( Nat. Hist. 8. 36) its enemy. The subsequent semantic confusion with the crocodile was probably partly due to formal similarity of the words; compare the α. forms at crocodile n. and the foreign-language forms cited at that entry. Although cocatriz occasionally appears in lists of mythical animals in Old French sources, the sense ‘basilisk’ is apparently not securely attested in medieval French. It is therefore unclear why the word was used to render post-classical Latin basiliscus and regulus (both in the sense ‘basilisk’) in John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomæus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum and in the roughly contemporary Wycliffite Bible (compare quots. a1382 and a1398¹ at sense 1a). Perhaps the semantic transfer was due to (a) a folk-etymological interpretation of the first syllable of cocatrice as coq cock n.¹ (compare sense 1c and also later henatrice n.), (b) a similar interpretation of the final syllable of Old French, Middle French basilicoc basilisk (c1200, see basilicock n.; compare also Old French, Middle French coqbasile basilisk (late 13th cent.), showing a transposition of the elements of basilicoc), and perhaps also (c) to a belief (attested from the 12th cent. in British sources) that a basilisk hatches from an egg laid by a cockerel.

a. A mythical reptile with a lethal gaze or breath, commonly said to be hatched by a serpent (or toad) from the egg of a cockerel or rooster; = basilisk n. 1. Later also more generally: a mythical monster combining, or resulting from the combination of, a cockerel or rooster and a serpent (or, occasionally, another animal); cf. sense 1c. [Used in Bible versions to translate Latin basiliscus, regulus, where the Septuagint has Greek βασιλίσκος, ἀσπίς.]

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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > mythical types of serpent (miscellaneous) > basilisk or cockatrice

basiliska1300

basilicock1340

cockatricea1382

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > mythological

cockatricea1382

henatrice1840

rainbow serpent1926

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms xc. 13 Vp on the eddere and the kokatrice [a1425 L.V. cocatrice; L. super basiliscum] thou shalt go.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. xvii. 628 A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde..and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid..a cocatrice.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xvi. 1153 The cocatrice fleeþ whanne he seeþ þe wesele... And he is half foote longe and he haþ white spekkes.

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 1251 (MED) With her loke thei slee yche erthly creature, As thise cokatrycys.

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ivv Like a Cockatrise, or Basilicock, which slay or kill men with the poison of their sighte.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 120 The Cockatrice, being halfe a foot in length, the hinder part like a Snake, the former part like a Cocke, because of a treble combe on his forehead.

1778 H. Brooke Impostor iii. v, in Poems & Plays II. 52 The armed hand may stroak the cockatrice, Admire her speckled crest, and pearled scale.

1830 R. Southey in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 256 Till this dracontine cockatrice Should break its way to light.

1892 T. W. Shore Hist. Hampshire xiii. 146 On this egg a toad sat, and as a result a cockatrice was hatched, which dwelt in the vault, attained a great size, and killed everything that went there.

2003 R. Taylor How to read Church 183 The basilisk, also known as the cockatrice, was half serpent and half cockerel.

†b. A crocodile. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] > suborder Eusuchia > family Crocodylidae > member of (crocodile)

crocodilec1300

cockatricec1450

emydosaurian1837

rhombifer1875

croc1884

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3895 Hardere Þan ony comon cogill-stane or cocatryse scales [L. dorsa duriora cocodrillis].

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B6^v The Cocatrice neuer meaneth so much crueltie, as when he fawneth vpon thee, and weepeth.

1659 J. Sheffield Sinfulnesse of Evil Thoughts iii. 22 The evil thought is the Original sin... They are the little sparkes of Hell..; The seed of the Serpent; The Egge of the Cockatrice, or Crocodile.

c. Heraldry. A cockatrice (sense 1a) represented as a two-legged winged dragon or wyvern with a cockerel or rooster's head.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > monsters

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lyciske1572

verme1572

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merman1601

lion-dragon1610

lion-poisson1610

wyvern1610

Sagittarius1619

sagittary1632

man-fish1653

sea lion1661

satyral1724

man-tiger1780

sea-dog1780

Welsh dragon1799

camelopardel1830

satyr1845

serpivolant1866

sea monkey1909

1513 in S. Glover Hist. County of Derby (1829) I. App. 61 John Curson..bayryth a Cokatrice displayd, goulls with a hed in hys tayll, hys fette and hys wattelles assur.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxvi. 182 Hee beareth Sable, a Cockatrice displaied, Argent, crested, membred, and iollopped, Gules, by the name of Buggine.

1773 Public Advertiser 6 Aug. Taken on the Highway last Night..an Agate Seal in Gold, Impression the Nugents Arms, the Crest of which is a Cockatrice.

1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xi. 67 The head of a Cockatrice is borne as a Crest.

1997 Archaeol. Ireland 11 30/1 There is a coronet above the shield and supporters on each side in the form of a cockatrice on the viewer's left and a horse or pegasus on the right.

2. A malicious, treacherous, or destructive person. Now somewhat rare.When used of a woman sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 3.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused

warlockOE

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Tartar1600

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pilcher1602

windfucker?1602

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tim1612

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wind-sucker1880

fucker1893

cocksucker1894

wart1896

so-and-so1897

swine-hound1899

motherfucker1918

S.O.B.1918

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mong1926

mucker1929

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zombie1936

meatball1937

shower1943

chickenshit1945

mugger1945

motherferyer1946

hooer1952

morpion1954

mother1955

mother-raper1959

louser1960

effer1961

salaud1962

gunk1964

scunge1967

1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 217 Conspiratour, cursit cockatrice..traitour, tyran intemperate.

1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. K2^v So Selimus hath prou'd a Cocatrice, And cleane consumed all the familie Of noble Ottoman.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 194 This was the end of this little Cockatrice of a King that was able to destroy those that did not espie him first.

1794 S. T. Coleridge Fall of Robespierre ii. 27 Is it for this we wage eternal war Against the tyrant horde of murderers, The crowned cockatrices whose fould venom Infects all Europe?

1858 Harper's Mag. Dec. 58/2 And my heart instinctive reads that this red-lipped cockatrice, with those hands as white as milk, works some conynge, quaint device: probably the odious cipher of some lover.

1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 Nov. 770/1 The baggage always affects strangers like that... Makes 'em frightfully goopy till they discover her for the cockatrice she is.

1989 S. Parker Heavenly Bodies i, in Plays: 2 103 Mary! Which hole has this scuttling little cockatrice hidden you in?

3. A prostitute, a whore. Frequently as a term of reproach or abuse for a woman. Now archaic and rare.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman

queanOE

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floozy1899

slattern1899

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chickenhead1988

ho1988

1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 1207 in Wks. (1931) II. 208 That cockatrice, that commoun heure.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. iv. sig. I2 And with-all calles me at his pleasure; I knowe not how many Cocatrices, and things.

a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Sssss/1 Ile show you him, and his Cockatrice together, And you shall heare 'em talke.

1687 C. Sedley Bellamira iv. 46 Prithee let me see thy Punk, thy Cockatrice, thy Harlot.

1747 D. Garrick Miss in her Teens ii. 35 Where's your Aunt, you young Cockatrice?

1835 Public Ledger (London) 7 Oct. Mulligan said that the old woman was a cockatrice; that he behaved genteelly to her at first, and that he would leave that to herself if it was not true.

1980 E. Jong Fanny p. vi So, if she has been called a woman of the town,..a buttered bun, a cockatrice, a cock-chafer,..it is not surprising.

Compounds

General use as a modifier, as in cockatrice egg, cockatrice eye, etc. Now chiefly figurative except in mythological or fantasy contexts.

ΚΠ

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xi. B He shal put his hande in to the Cockatryce denne.

a1671 T. Fairfax Short Mem. (1699) 103 The fruit of our hopes..prove as cockatrice eggs from whence so mischievous a brood should spring.

1764 Public Advertiser 25 May Are the proctors then to be blamed for crushing this cockatrice nest; this young Robin Hood factory?

1841 Penny Satirist 17 July That rich luxurious looking beauty—with cockatrice eyes, and every hair of her head a snake—for a birth in the knavy—eh?

1965 A. Davidson What Strange Stars & Skies 183 Slip me the Formula for the Transmutation of Borax Without the Use of Cockatrice-egg.

2011 G. M. Cummins Mahler Re-composed iii. 156 Gazing into the cockatrice eye of the camera like a brave little child condemned to death by an evil charm.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cockatrice
释义	cockatricen. Brit. /ˈkɒkətrʌɪs/, /ˈkɒkətrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈkɑkətrəs/, /ˈkɑkəˌtraɪs/ Forms: Middle English cocatryse, Middle English cocautrice, Middle English cocetryce, Middle English cockautrice, Middle English cokautrice, Middle English coketrice, Middle English coketris, Middle English kocatrice, Middle English–1500s kokatrice, Middle English–1600s cokatrice, Middle English–1600s cokatryce, Middle English–1800s cocatrice, late Middle English coltris (transmission error), late Middle English– cockatrice, 1500s cocatryce, 1500s coccatrise, 1500s coccatryce, 1500s cockatryse, 1500s cokeatrice, 1500s cokeatryce, 1500s coketryse, 1500s kocatryce, 1500s kocketrice, 1500s kocketryce, 1500s koketrice, 1500s 1600s cockcatrice (perhaps transmission error), 1500s–1600s cackatrice, 1500s–1600s cocatrise, 1500s–1600s coccatrice, 1500s–1600s cockatrise, 1500s–1600s cockatryce, 1500s–1600s cockeatrice, 1500s–1600s cokatrise, 1500s–1600s kockatrice, 1600s cacotruce, 1600s cocatrix, 1600s cockatrix, 1600s cockatrize, 1600s cokatryse, 1600s coquatrise, 1600s kokatrise; also Scottish pre-1700 cocatras, pre-1700 cocatrice, pre-1700 coccatrice, pre-1700 cockatrick, pre-1700 cocketrice, pre-1700 cokatrice, pre-1700 cokatris, pre-1700 cokcatrice, pre-1700 coketrice, pre-1700 cokintrace, pre-1700 cokkatrice, pre-1700 cokkatryce, pre-1700 kocatrice, pre-1700 kokatrice, pre-1700 kokkatrys. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French cocatrice. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French cocatrice, cocatriz, coketriz, cocadris (in Old French also as caucatris , caucatrix , coquatriz ) crocodile (late 12th cent.), mythical animal of uncertain kind (c1200), aquatic reptile, enemy of the crocodile (13th cent.) < post-classical Latin calcatric- , calcatrix person who tramples upon (early 5th cent.; compare caucatrices (plural) crocodiles (13th cent.)) < classical Latin calcāt- , past participial stem of calcāre , originally ‘to tread’, in post-classical Latin ‘to tread on the heels of, track, trace out’ (see calcate v.) + -trīx -trix suffix, apparently after ancient Greek ἰχνεύμων ichneumon (compare ἰχνευτής ), literally ‘tracker, tracer out, hunter out’ (see ichneumon n.).Compare Old Occitan calcatrics mythical animal, probably crocodile (13th cent.), Spanish cocatriz , †cocadriz , †cacotriz , †coquedriz crocodile (c1250; < French), Italian †calcatrice mythical animal, perhaps crocodile (second half of the 13th cent.; < post-classical Latin). Since post-classical Latin calcatrix appears to have been modelled on ancient Greek ἰχνεύμων , the original sense in post-classical Latin and Old French (despite the chronology of attestation) would have been ‘enemy of the crocodile’, and subsequently by confusion also ‘crocodile’. The ichneumon was especially revered by the ancient Egyptians for destroying the eggs of the crocodile, and is called by Pliny ( Nat. Hist. 8. 36) its enemy. The subsequent semantic confusion with the crocodile was probably partly due to formal similarity of the words; compare the α. forms at crocodile n. and the foreign-language forms cited at that entry. Although cocatriz occasionally appears in lists of mythical animals in Old French sources, the sense ‘basilisk’ is apparently not securely attested in medieval French. It is therefore unclear why the word was used to render post-classical Latin basiliscus and regulus (both in the sense ‘basilisk’) in John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomæus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum and in the roughly contemporary Wycliffite Bible (compare quots. a1382 and a1398¹ at sense 1a). Perhaps the semantic transfer was due to (a) a folk-etymological interpretation of the first syllable of cocatrice as coq cock n.¹ (compare sense 1c and also later henatrice n.), (b) a similar interpretation of the final syllable of Old French, Middle French basilicoc basilisk (c1200, see basilicock n.; compare also Old French, Middle French coqbasile basilisk (late 13th cent.), showing a transposition of the elements of basilicoc), and perhaps also (c) to a belief (attested from the 12th cent. in British sources) that a basilisk hatches from an egg laid by a cockerel. 1. a. A mythical reptile with a lethal gaze or breath, commonly said to be hatched by a serpent (or toad) from the egg of a cockerel or rooster; = basilisk n. 1. Later also more generally: a mythical monster combining, or resulting from the combination of, a cockerel or rooster and a serpent (or, occasionally, another animal); cf. sense 1c. [Used in Bible versions to translate Latin basiliscus, regulus, where the Septuagint has Greek βασιλίσκος, ἀσπίς.] ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > mythical types of serpent (miscellaneous) > basilisk or cockatrice basiliska1300 basilicock1340 cockatricea1382 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > mythological cockatricea1382 henatrice1840 rainbow serpent1926 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms xc. 13 Vp on the eddere and the kokatrice [a1425 L.V. cocatrice; L. super basiliscum] thou shalt go. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. xvii. 628 A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde..and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid..a cocatrice. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xvi. 1153 The cocatrice fleeþ whanne he seeþ þe wesele... And he is half foote longe and he haþ white spekkes. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 1251 (MED) With her loke thei slee yche erthly creature, As thise cokatrycys. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ivv Like a Cockatrise, or Basilicock, which slay or kill men with the poison of their sighte. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 120 The Cockatrice, being halfe a foot in length, the hinder part like a Snake, the former part like a Cocke, because of a treble combe on his forehead. 1778 H. Brooke Impostor iii. v, in Poems & Plays II. 52 The armed hand may stroak the cockatrice, Admire her speckled crest, and pearled scale. 1830 R. Southey in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 256 Till this dracontine cockatrice Should break its way to light. 1892 T. W. Shore Hist. Hampshire xiii. 146 On this egg a toad sat, and as a result a cockatrice was hatched, which dwelt in the vault, attained a great size, and killed everything that went there. 2003 R. Taylor How to read Church 183 The basilisk, also known as the cockatrice, was half serpent and half cockerel. †b. A crocodile. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] > suborder Eusuchia > family Crocodylidae > member of (crocodile) crocodilec1300 cockatricec1450 emydosaurian1837 rhombifer1875 croc1884 c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3895 Hardere Þan ony comon cogill-stane or cocatryse scales [L. dorsa duriora cocodrillis]. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B6^v The Cocatrice neuer meaneth so much crueltie, as when he fawneth vpon thee, and weepeth. 1659 J. Sheffield Sinfulnesse of Evil Thoughts iii. 22 The evil thought is the Original sin... They are the little sparkes of Hell..; The seed of the Serpent; The Egge of the Cockatrice, or Crocodile. c. Heraldry. A cockatrice (sense 1a) represented as a two-legged winged dragon or wyvern with a cockerel or rooster's head. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > monsters dragonc1330 griffina1400 yalec1425 mermaid1445 manticorec1470 cockatrice1513 mermaiden1538 opinicus1546 lituit1562 Pegasus1562 equicerve1572 harpy1572 lyciske1572 verme1572 wyver1599 merman1601 lion-dragon1610 lion-poisson1610 wyvern1610 Sagittarius1619 sagittary1632 man-fish1653 sea lion1661 satyral1724 man-tiger1780 sea-dog1780 Welsh dragon1799 camelopardel1830 satyr1845 serpivolant1866 sea monkey1909 1513 in S. Glover Hist. County of Derby (1829) I. App. 61 John Curson..bayryth a Cokatrice displayd, goulls with a hed in hys tayll, hys fette and hys wattelles assur. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxvi. 182 Hee beareth Sable, a Cockatrice displaied, Argent, crested, membred, and iollopped, Gules, by the name of Buggine. 1773 Public Advertiser 6 Aug. Taken on the Highway last Night..an Agate Seal in Gold, Impression the Nugents Arms, the Crest of which is a Cockatrice. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xi. 67 The head of a Cockatrice is borne as a Crest. 1997 Archaeol. Ireland 11 30/1 There is a coronet above the shield and supporters on each side in the form of a cockatrice on the viewer's left and a horse or pegasus on the right. 2. A malicious, treacherous, or destructive person. Now somewhat rare.When used of a woman sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused warlockOE swinec1175 beastc1225 wolf's-fista1300 avetrolc1300 congeonc1300 dirtc1300 slimec1315 snipec1325 lurdanc1330 misbegetc1330 sorrowa1350 shrew1362 jordan1377 wirlingc1390 frog?a1400 warianglea1400 wretcha1400 horcop14.. turdc1400 callet1415 lotterela1450 paddock?a1475 souter1478 chuff?a1500 langbain?c1500 cockatrice1508 sow1508 spink1508 wilrone1508 rook?a1513 streaker?a1513 dirt-dauber?1518 marmoset1523 babiona1529 poll-hatcheta1529 bear-wolf1542 misbegotten1546 pig1546 excrement1561 mamzer1562 chuff-cat1563 varlet1566 toada1568 mandrake1568 spider1568 rat1571 bull-beef1573 mole-catcher1573 suppository1573 curtal1578 spider-catcher1579 mongrela1585 roita1585 stickdirta1585 dogfish1589 Poor John1589 dog's facec1590 tar-boxa1592 baboon1592 pot-hunter1592 venom1592 porcupine1594 lick-fingers1595 mouldychaps1595 tripe1595 conundrum1596 fat-guts1598 thornback1599 land-rat1600 midriff1600 stinkardc1600 Tartar1600 tumbril1601 lobster1602 pilcher1602 windfucker?1602 stinker1607 hog rubber1611 shad1612 splay-foot1612 tim1612 whit1612 verdugo1616 renegado1622 fish-facea1625 flea-trapa1625 hound's head1633 mulligrub1633 nightmare1633 toad's-guts1634 bitch-baby1638 shagamuffin1642 shit-breech1648 shitabed1653 snite1653 pissabed1672 bastard1675 swab1687 tar-barrel1695 runt1699 fat-face1740 shit-sack1769 vagabond1842 shick-shack1847 soor1848 b1851 stink-pot1854 molie1871 pig-dog1871 schweinhund1871 wind-sucker1880 fucker1893 cocksucker1894 wart1896 so-and-so1897 swine-hound1899 motherfucker1918 S.O.B.1918 twat1922 mong1926 mucker1929 basket1936 cowson1936 zombie1936 meatball1937 shower1943 chickenshit1945 mugger1945 motherferyer1946 hooer1952 morpion1954 mother1955 mother-raper1959 louser1960 effer1961 salaud1962 gunk1964 scunge1967 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 217 Conspiratour, cursit cockatrice..traitour, tyran intemperate. 1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. K2^v So Selimus hath prou'd a Cocatrice, And cleane consumed all the familie Of noble Ottoman. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 194 This was the end of this little Cockatrice of a King that was able to destroy those that did not espie him first. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Fall of Robespierre ii. 27 Is it for this we wage eternal war Against the tyrant horde of murderers, The crowned cockatrices whose fould venom Infects all Europe? 1858 Harper's Mag. Dec. 58/2 And my heart instinctive reads that this red-lipped cockatrice, with those hands as white as milk, works some conynge, quaint device: probably the odious cipher of some lover. 1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 Nov. 770/1 The baggage always affects strangers like that... Makes 'em frightfully goopy till they discover her for the cockatrice she is. 1989 S. Parker Heavenly Bodies i, in Plays: 2 103 Mary! Which hole has this scuttling little cockatrice hidden you in? 3. A prostitute, a whore. Frequently as a term of reproach or abuse for a woman. Now archaic and rare.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 1207 in Wks. (1931) II. 208 That cockatrice, that commoun heure. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. iv. sig. I2 And with-all calles me at his pleasure; I knowe not how many Cocatrices, and things. View more context for this quotation a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Sssss/1 Ile show you him, and his Cockatrice together, And you shall heare 'em talke. 1687 C. Sedley Bellamira iv. 46 Prithee let me see thy Punk, thy Cockatrice, thy Harlot. 1747 D. Garrick Miss in her Teens ii. 35 Where's your Aunt, you young Cockatrice? 1835 Public Ledger (London) 7 Oct. Mulligan said that the old woman was a cockatrice; that he behaved genteelly to her at first, and that he would leave that to herself if it was not true. 1980 E. Jong Fanny p. vi So, if she has been called a woman of the town,..a buttered bun, a cockatrice, a cock-chafer,..it is not surprising. Compounds General use as a modifier, as in cockatrice egg, cockatrice eye, etc. Now chiefly figurative except in mythological or fantasy contexts. ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xi. B He shal put his hande in to the Cockatryce denne. a1671 T. Fairfax Short Mem. (1699) 103 The fruit of our hopes..prove as cockatrice eggs from whence so mischievous a brood should spring. 1764 Public Advertiser 25 May Are the proctors then to be blamed for crushing this cockatrice nest; this young Robin Hood factory? 1841 Penny Satirist 17 July That rich luxurious looking beauty—with cockatrice eyes, and every hair of her head a snake—for a birth in the knavy—eh? 1965 A. Davidson What Strange Stars & Skies 183 Slip me the Formula for the Transmutation of Borax Without the Use of Cockatrice-egg. 2011 G. M. Cummins Mahler Re-composed iii. 156 Gazing into the cockatrice eye of the camera like a brave little child condemned to death by an evil charm. 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