cockerel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a young male domestic chicken, especially one less than a year old

   The cockerel began crowing before the rest of the farmyard stirred.

From Middle English cokerel, a diminutive formation from cock for a male chicken. The suffix represented a young or small male, so the word came to distinguish an immature rooster from a fully grown cock.

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