cock

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to tilt or slant to one side

   Cock one's head.

2. 2
   verb

   to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

   The lead singer cocked around the stage.

3. 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.

4. 4
   noun

   A penis.

   She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?

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Simplified etymology

Cock is an Old English word whose ancient root was probably suggested by the bird’s call; the same root may also have produced chicken. Its Middle English use for the penis may reflect both the bird’s ancient association with sexual voracity and a comparison between its erect red crest and an erect penis.

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”).

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