cockerel
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- noun
- /ˈkɑːkərəl/
- UK
:
polluelo
- Below her, the hens and cockerel were gathered together in a tight group, and the chicken racket that Nancy had taken for the scolding cry of a couple of hens was actually the tense, economical squawking of the group in a random chorus.
Examples
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But the cockerel walked a slow semicircle around her legs, carefully lifting and placing each spurred foot in the soft mud.
Fiction book (1993) -
The call to prayer from a mosque or the cockerels in the towns woke us in the morning, and we walked in the markets bartering for papaya, batik, and wayang puppets during the day.
Fiction book (1997) -
No, no, not for you, my cockerel.
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And what about our young Saxon cockerel here?
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She says that no fowl on Earth could challenge this cockerel and survive.
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One cockerel in a farmyard for thirty-five chickens.
Fiction book (1996) -
I have to admit that the cockerel is the handsomest and healthiest-looking 'village chicken' I've seen for a while.
Blog text (22) -
The farmer raised several animals, but his favorite was a young cockerel with vibrant feathers.
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Each morning, the cockerel would announce the start of a new day with its loud crowing.
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I watch the little cockerel pecking at the ground, searching for seeds and insects.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Cockerel comes from the familiar word cock, meaning 'male chicken', plus a small ending -rel that makes it 'little cock'. So, a cockerel is a young male chicken, not yet a full-grown rooster.