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cocking

adj · name · noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • CMU ARPABET: K AA1 K IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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adj

Meaning 1

Offensive or worthless

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, vulgar

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fucking, no good, shitstained, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, two-bit, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8717).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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3

name

Meaning 3

A habitational surname from Old English.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

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4

noun

Meaning 4

The hunting of gamecocks.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

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5

noun

Meaning 5

Cockfighting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

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6

verb

Meaning 6

present participle and gerund of cock

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From cock (“a male bird, esp. a rooster; many derivatives, incl. penis”) + -ing (forming participles).

From the Old English personal name Cocca + -ing (“(settlement) belonging to”).