单词 | cockerel |
释义 | cockereln. 1. a. A young male of the domestic chicken, spec. one that is mature but less than one year old. Also more widely (in recent use): a male domestic chicken of any age; = cock n.1 1.The wider sense now prevails in popular use. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > cockerel cockerel1440 cocknel1593 cockling1721 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 86 Cokerelle, gallus [1499 Pynson adds gallimellus]. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 31 The yung cockerels..followid after with a cockaloodletoo as wel as ther strenhth wuld suffer them. 1653 Choice Man. Secrets Physick & Chyrurgery 22 Then put to it a good Cockrell, or two Chickens clean dressed. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 41 If you can't crow like an old Cock, crow like a Cockeril. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 63 Both eyes shut, like the cockerel that would crow. 1920 M. Gyte Diary 30 Aug. (1999) 272 Anthony also took 20 cockerels which made 11/- the couple. 2017 Church Times 16 June 20/2 Our neighbours have acquired a young cockerel—not that the old cockerel has fallen off his perch. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun] frumberdlingc1000 young manOE childc1225 hind1297 pagec1300 youtha1325 fawnc1369 swainc1386 stripling1398 boy1440 springaldc1450 jovencel1490 younkera1522 speara1529 gorrel1530 lad1535 hobbledehoy1540 cockerel1547 waga1556 spring1559 loonc1560 hensure1568 youngster1577 imp1578 pigsney1581 cocklinga1586 demy1589 muchacho1591 shaver1592 snipper-snappera1593 callant1597 spaught1598 stubble boy1598 ghillie1603 codling1612 cuba1616 skippera1616 man-boy1637 sprig1646 callow1651 halflang1660 stubbed boy1683 gossoon1684 gilpie1718 stirraha1722 young lion1792 halfling1794 pubescent1795 young man1810 sixteener1824 señorito1843 tad1845 boysie1846 shaveling1854 ephebe1880 boychick1921 lightie1946 young blood1967 studmuffin1986 1547 tr. A. de Marcourt Declar. Masse v. sig. C.viii What man can thincke the nombre of the cockerelles that runne after harlottes, as cockes after hennes. a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fj Alas pretie cockerell, you are to weake. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 33. Ant. Which, of he, or Adrian, for a good wager, First begins to crow? Seb. The old Cocke. Ant. The Cockrell. 1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat v. i. sig. I3v Pag. Let me fight for my Mistresse. Serv. Tis in vaine, Little Cockerell of the kinde. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary i. i. 3 Thou'rt no such cockerel thyself, for thou was born i' the tail end of old Harry the Seventh. 2. Any of several fishes; esp. the bogue, Boops boops, a small large-eyed sea bream of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (more fully ox-eyed cockerel). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Boops boce1589 ox-eyea1642 cockerel1676 bogue1862 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Mennow, Minimus, a Cockrel, a very little fish. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lx. 246 Cockrells..Thornbacks. 1802 H. Neuman New Dict. Span. & Eng. Lang. I. at Tineta Ox-eyed cockerel. (Sparus Boops, Linn.). 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 347 Basket for fishing ox-eyed cockerel, Valencia. 1959 G. Barr tr. J. M. de Pereda Sotileza iii. 49 The ox-eyed cockerel—a fish that was very abundant in those days. Compounds General use as a modifier and with other nouns, with the senses ‘that is a cockerel; of, resembling, or reminiscent of a cockerel’. ΚΠ 1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth ii. f. 106v Let vs see, I saie, what other egges this Cockatrice hath now laied, and wel sitten on, till the Cockerell Chickins be quicke in the shell, that shall crowe at the Croune it selfe. 1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles iv. sig. Hv Their entercourse..of glances that past betwixt this cockrill-drone, and her. 1807 Salmagundi 1 Oct. 320 He..ranted like a true cockerel orator. 1913 N. Howard Coll. Poems 445 The cockerel strut of cant and arrogance. 1991 Third Way Dec. 41/1 I remember a punk friend—cockerel haircut, leather trousers, bovver boots, and ripped jumper. 2011 Independent on Sunday 8 May 13/2 The extensions are made from the same cockerel plumes that anglers use to lure salmon and trout. Derivatives ˈcockerel-like adj. resembling a cockerel or resembling that of a cockerel. ΚΠ 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 12 To be continually a mountain-sheep Is Cockrell-like, it is a dung-hill braue. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 520 The ridiculous cockerel-like manner in which they swell, strut, bluster, and bully. 2013 New Statesman 1 Nov. 57/2 The cast is part human, part bird—Macbeth is cockerel-like, Duncan is a swan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440 |
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