Meanings
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1
verb
to tilt or slant to one side
Cock one's head.
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2
verb
to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
The lead singer cocked around the stage.
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3
noun
A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […], from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.
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4
noun
A penis.
She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?
Thesaurus
Etymology
From Middle English cokke, cock, cok, from Old English *cocc (“heap, pile”, attested in place names), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“mass, bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”). Cognate with dialectal German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), Norman coque (“small haystack”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).