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Webster 1913 Edition


Cocking

Cock′ing

,
Noun.
Cockfighting.
Ben Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cocking

COCKING

,
Noun.
Cock-fighting.

Definition 2024


cocking

cocking

English

Verb

cocking

  1. present participle of cock

Noun

cocking (countable and uncountable, plural cockings)

  1. (archaic) The hunting of gamecocks.
  2. (obsolete) Cockfighting.
    • 1792, The European Magazine, and London Review (volume 21, page 313)
      Thus circumstanced, he became the avowed companion of sharpers and gamblers, attended cockings and races []

Derived terms

Adjective

cocking (not comparable)

  1. (vulgar) offensive or worthless
    • 2000, Neil Kurtzman, Doing Nothing (page 180)
      "Son of a cocking bastard."