Cock

//kɒk//

"Cock" in a Sentence (53 examples)

The landlord told me a cock and bull story about why we didn't have heat for three days.

If you go drinking with Tom, be prepared to listen to some pretty outlandish cock and bull stories.

It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

He was the cock of the walk.

The crowing of a cock is the harbinger of dawn.

Every cock crows on his own dunghill.

The Ghost of Cock Lane is an English ghost story from the 18th century.

He has a huge cock.

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."

I've got a big cock!

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The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […], from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.

She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?

My cock is much bigger than yours / My cock can walk right through the door / With a feeling so pure / It's got you screaming back for more

[…] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said.

[…] in 1803; my eyes transmogrified […]; my nose had lost its pretty cock, and had grown elegantly hooked; and […]

One day, however, by her self-important gait, the side-way turn of her head, and the cock of her eye, as she pried into one and another nook of the garden, […]

"You used to talk an awful lot of cock."

That Hitler's armies can't be beat is just a load of cock, / For Marshal Timoshenko's boys are pissing through von Bock […]

The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.

CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE: COMPRISING "COCKS," OR "CATCHPENNIES," A Large and Curious Assortment of STREET DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC STORIES IN PROSE AND VERSE, […]

This title ['Death Hunter'] refers not only to his vending accounts of all the murders that become topics of public conversation, but to his being a 'murderer' on his own account, as in the sale of 'cocks' mentioned incidentally in this narrative. If the truth be saleable , a running patterer prefers selling the truth […]

All right, cock?

Now, in coming down here, I journeyed part of the way with a jolly old cock, who shed a tear with me every time the coach stopped […]

“’Ullo, cock,” it said, amiably enough. “So you’ve come to, ’ave yer? ’Ang on a bit, an’ I’ll get you a cup o’ char.”

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!

The contrarye [side of a die] to this... was called Venus, or Cous, and yt was cocke, the beste that might be cast.

Tis sir Salomon's sword; cock of as many men as it hath been drawn against. Woe worth the man that comes in the way of so dead-doing a tool, […]

Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us.

She is a widow, don, consider that; Has buried one was thought a Hercules, Two cubits taller, and a man that cut Three inches deeper in the say, than I; Consider that too : She may be cock o'twenty, nay, for aught know, she is immortal.

This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock;

"I suppose, John," said Clara, as her brother entered the apartment," you are glad of a weaker cup this morning than those you were drinking last night - you were carousing till after the first cock."

And here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight.

As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.

Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.

The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.

A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw

Cocked, fired, and missed his man.

In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.

Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.

Dick would cock his nose in scorn.

Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s "Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."

He cocked his hat jauntily.

The Sentry, to this question, said nothing in reply; / But first he cocked his rifle, and then he cocked his eye.

Near-synonyms: rick, stook, shock

The farmhands stack the hay into cocks.

Under the cocked hay.

Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear, Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.

My back is made of whalebone And my cock is made of brass

The dog come a-trottin' and the dog come a-lopin' A purty little gal with her cock wide open.

I stuck my fist up in her cock, she didn't budge or move it.

She smelled like she was on her period and hadn't changed pads. On ah many occasions I heard men say her cock smelled through her clothing.

Yond tall anchoring bark [appears] / Diminished to her cock; her cock, a buoy / Almost too small for sight.

By cock and pie.

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