cockroach

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a fast-running, usually flattened insect of the order Blattodea, several species of which are common household pests

   A cockroach darted beneath the refrigerator when the kitchen light came on.

An English alteration of Spanish cucaracha, reshaped in the seventeenth century under the influence of the familiar words cock and roach. The insect is unrelated to either a male chicken or the fish called a roach.

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