Cockcrowing
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The crowing sound of a cock. countable, uncountable
"We might have had hearts in our cradles; but, as I don't pretend to remember mine, I cannot say. Perhaps at sixteen, too, there is a sort of imagination of one; but it is a phantom which flits at the cockcrowing of reality."
- 2 cockcrow; daybreak countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"We might have had hearts in our cradles; but, as I don't pretend to remember mine, I cannot say. Perhaps at sixteen, too, there is a sort of imagination of one; but it is a phantom which flits at the cockcrowing of reality."
Etymology
From Middle English cok crowynge; equivalent to cock + crowing.
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