English Explanatory Dictionary

cocking

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. present participle and gerund of cock
noun
  1. The hunting of gamecocks.
  2. Cockfighting.
adj
  1. Offensive or worthless
name
  1. A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8717).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

cocking cockings

Etymology

From cock (“a male bird, esp. a rooster; many derivatives, incl. penis”) + -ing (forming participles).

Synonyms

fucking no good shitstained bastardly blown cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish draffy dreckish drecky duffing floccinaucinihilipilificatious for the birds garbagey good-for-naught good-for-nothing goodless ineffectual invaluable jabberwocky junky mouldy mucid naughty no-account no good / no-good nonvaluable not worth a damn not worth a dime not worth a plug nickel not worth a brass farthing not worth a cent not worth a cress not worth a curse not worth a Continental not worth a farthing not worth hell room not worth a nickel not worth a penny not worth salt not worth a whistle nought of no value pissass punk putid rubbishly rubbishy sixpenny scabbed screwy scummy shand shit shitey

Related words

cocker cocker spaniel

Derived words

cocking of a snook
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