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noun
A menial yet self-important person; a person who makes empty boasts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Boastful speech, crowing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
A game similar to leapfrog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: high cockalorum
Antonyms: none provided
History
Possibly English cock (“rooster”), with -a- and Latin -lorum suffixed as a fanciful elaboration; or from a Dutch onomatopoeic dialect term kockeloeren (“the cry of a rooster; cock-a-doodle-doo”), hence the modern Dutch verb koekeloeren (“to crow”).
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
