cockhorse
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈkɑkˌhɔrs/
- Archaic
:
caballito
- To entertain her little brother, she gave him a ride on the cockhorse during playtime.
Examples
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Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross
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The child gleefully sat on the cockhorse and pretended to gallop around the living room.
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Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross
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He placed his toy cockhorse in the corner as his favorite childhood memory.
Synonyms
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5.6
A child's toy horse used for play
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9.9
A toy horse a child rocks while sitting and pretending to ride
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1.3
A child's toy horse on curved rockers that moves when you sit on it
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7.2
A toy horse on a stick that a child sits on and pretends to ride
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2.3
A toy with a horse head on a stick that a child pretends to ride
Idioms
How Playful
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1.3
- Archaic
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9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cockhorse: A helpful way to remember this word is to see it as cock (a 'rooster' or 'proud') plus horse, so it first named a bold, lively horse. Over time it came to mean a child's toy horse or the knee a child rides on, much like a rocking horse, so the origin explains the modern meaning.