noun
Meaning 1
A rooster used in cockfighting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fighting cock
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
gamecock
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɡeɪm.kɒk/
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noun
Meaning 2
a cock bred and trained for fighting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fighting cock
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cock
noun
Meaning 3
someone who is a very fierce fighter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hell-kite, hell-rooster
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper
History
Etymology
From game + cock.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: боен петел (boen petel) — fighting cock
- Catalan: gall de baralla — fighting cock
- Chinese: 相拍雞仔 /相拍鸡仔 (zh-min-nan) — fighting cock
- Chinese Mandarin: 鬥雞 /斗鸡 (dòujī) — fighting cock
- Dutch: vechthaan — fighting cock
- Dutch: kemphaan — fighting cock
- Finnish: taistelukukko — fighting cock
- French: coq de combat — fighting cock
- Georgian: მებრძოლი მამალი (mebrʒoli mamali) — fighting cock
- German: Kampfhahn — fighting cock
- Indonesian: ayam aduan — fighting cock
- Indonesian: ayam tangkas — fighting cock
- Indonesian: ayam laga — fighting cock
- Indonesian: ayam sabungan — fighting cock
- Irish: coileach comhraic — fighting cock
- Irish: coileach troda — fighting cock
- Japanese: 闘鶏 (tōkei) — fighting cock
- Japanese: しゃも (shamo) — fighting cock
- Japanese: 軍鶏 (shamo) — fighting cock
- Khmer: មាន់ជល់ (mŏəncŭəl) — fighting cock
- Lao: ໄກ່ຕີ (kai tī) — fighting cock
- Manx: kellagh caggee — fighting cock
- Polish: kogut do walki — fighting cock
- Portuguese: galo de rinha — fighting cock
- Romanian: cocoș de luptă — fighting cock
- Russian: бойцо́вый пету́х (bojcóvyj petúx) — fighting cock
- Russian: боево́й пету́х (bojevój petúx) — fighting cock
- Spanish: gallo de pelea — fighting cock
- Spanish: gallo de combate — fighting cock
- Spanish: gallo de lidia — fighting cock
- Sundanese: hayam aduan — fighting cock
- Swedish: stridstupp — fighting cock
- Telugu: పందెపుకోడి (pandepukōḍi) — fighting cock
- Thai: ชน (chon) — fighting cock
- Thai: ไก่ชน — fighting cock
- Vietnamese: gà chọi — fighting cock