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Webster 1913 Edition
Cocking
Cock′ing
,Noun.
Cockfighting.
Ben Jonson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cocking
COCKING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
cocking
cocking
English
Verb
cocking
- present participle of cock
Noun
cocking (countable and uncountable, plural cockings)
- (archaic) The hunting of gamecocks.
- (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 […]
- 1792, The European Magazine, and London Review (volume 21, page 313)
Derived terms
Adjective
cocking (not comparable)
- (vulgar) offensive or worthless
- 2000, Neil Kurtzman, Doing Nothing (page 180)
- "Son of a cocking bastard."
- 2000, Neil Kurtzman, Doing Nothing (page 180)